Before I retired, I worked for the Oregon PUC for 9 years. OR forced PGE to decommission the only coal plant operating in Oregon. During an inspection there was not a hint of coal dust anywhere. It was a clean operation, generating 15% of its electricity. PGE now must forgo getting any power at all from its plant in MT for use in OR. It …
Before I retired, I worked for the Oregon PUC for 9 years. OR forced PGE to decommission the only coal plant operating in Oregon. During an inspection there was not a hint of coal dust anywhere. It was a clean operation, generating 15% of its electricity. PGE now must forgo getting any power at all from its plant in MT for use in OR. It pays to get electricity from Bonneville hydro plant and all hydro in states like OR are not consider ‘green’ energy. The US will end up like Germany because we are not replacing lost electricity generating capabilities with nuclear.
Before I retired, I worked for the Oregon PUC for 9 years. OR forced PGE to decommission the only coal plant operating in Oregon. During an inspection there was not a hint of coal dust anywhere. It was a clean operation, generating 15% of its electricity. PGE now must forgo getting any power at all from its plant in MT for use in OR. It pays to get electricity from Bonneville hydro plant and all hydro in states like OR are not consider ‘green’ energy. The US will end up like Germany because we are not replacing lost electricity generating capabilities with nuclear.
The dirtiest thing about coal has been its politics
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