Texas Coal Plant Scales Back Operations
Luminant, a major Texas power-generation company, plans to shut two of three units at one of its 1970s-era coal plants during the winter and spring, the company told the Texas grid operator this week. That removes about 1,200 megawatts, or more than 1 percent of capacity, from the already strained Texas power grid.
“The sole reason is persistently low power prices,” said Allan Koenig, a spokesman for Luminant. The two units, from the Monticello coal plant in Titus County in East Texas, have been operating well below capacity, he said, producing only about a quarter of the power they ...
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James Weisinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
they are lying because they know we know the truth
Carolyn Moon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
These are the same kinds of people who said we wouldn't have enough power over the summer.
audrey fisher
Now, wait - the letter's that will be flooding our in-boxes and mail boxes from the GOP congressional and Senate candidates will ignore this fact - and say it was the EPA's fault.
In the real world, we would call these congressional folks LIARS, but here in TX, some see them as hero's.
Facts are facts. Thanks to Koenig for speaking the truth.
Elmo
People wake up, It is about getting your prices higher. Recently Wholesale rates have doubled thatnks to our government and all of suddent power is available.
BurningFeet
The sole reason is persistently low power prices?
Oh, come on. We know better! Leading truth tellers like global warming advocate Senator James Inhofe told us it was the EPA!
This from HumanEvents.com on June 6:
Republicans say the mercury emission rules for coal-fired plants are the centerpiece of President Barack Obama’s war on coal.
“This effectively kills coal in America,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), author of the measure.
See? What do the people running the coal plants know? This IS Obama's fault. Dang'd old EPA did it, too.