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“When you do the math – when you look at the rate of retirements, you look at the rate of growth, and you add in the current rate of throughput for our queue – we are headed for some trouble. And that trouble is likely to find us later in this decade.”

  • Manu Asthana
  • PRESIDENT AND CEO
  • PJM INTERCONNECTION
  • Electric Power Supply Association Competitive Power Summit
  • 03/23/2023

“We have significant concerns about this proposed rule landing at a time when the promises of job creation and job retraining in the coalfields remain little more than words on paper. The next round of coal-fired power plant closures is coming. But the coal-producing areas of the country are still reeling from the last round, and they are not prepared for this one.”

  • Cecil E. Roberts
  • INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT
  • UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA
  • Response to EPA’s Proposed Carbon Rule
  • 05/15/2023

“Commissioner Christie said the red lights are flashing, problems are coming. The problem generally is not the addition of intermittent resources primarily wind and solar but the far too rapid subtraction of dispatchable resources especially coal and gas.”

  • Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
  • RANKING MEMBER
  • SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
  • Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
  • 05/04/2023

“We’ve been watching carbon capture technology for some time, and it’s at least seven to 10 years to put a system into place in a commercial basis if it would work which is unclear to us at this time. The rule requires it by 2030 and there’s just no way we can make that.”

  • Patrick Oloughin
  • PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
  • BUCKEYE POWER, INC. AND OHIO RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES
  • House Committee on Energy and Commerce
  • 06/06/2023

“Our assessments demonstrate that the electric grid is operating ever closer to the edge where more frequent and more serious disruptions are increasingly likely.”

  • Jim Robb
  • PRESIDENT AND CEO
  • NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY CORPORATION (NERC)
  • Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • 06/01/2023