Trump Admin Takes Emergency Action To Keep Michigan Coal Plant Open
Washington Free BeaconMAY 24
The emergency order represents a crucial step to protect grid reliability and prevent potential blackouts during peak summer demand. Keeping the Campbell plant operational provides essential baseload power that can't be reliably replaced by intermittent renewable sources, ensuring energy security for Michigan residents and preventing unnecessary risks to the power supply.
This federal intervention undermines Michigan's carefully planned transition to clean energy and unnecessarily prolongs the operation of a polluting facility. The order ignores state-level planning that has already ensured adequate power supplies, while forcing customers to bear increased costs for running an aging, inefficient coal plant that should be retired as scheduled.
There is a 50% chance that fossil fuels will make up less than 50% of United States primary energy consumption by 2040, according to the Metaculus prediction community.