Yep

Oh yea I said that about a year and a half ago. Its possible others thought of it though? I was on some zoom meeting with @brynbaker.bsky.social .

I’m not seeing much practical impact. Natural gas fracking killed coal power in the US and neither this nor any previous administration is banning fracking. 9/9

On the reliability EO, DOE has no general authority to prevent retirements. They can use their temporary situational FPA 202c authority to over-ride certain environmental policies to run plants in defined emergencies. There is no specific emergency yet defined. 8/9

The state policy EO looks like it directs the AG to try to challenge state climate policies in court as unconstitutional. Of course, they are constitutional and consistent with our federalist system as courts have found for over four decades.7/9

Coal plants will likely be kept on line longer than believed a few years ago due to an uptick in power demand. But that is unrelated to these orders, and doesn’t mean the plants will operate outside of peak periods to maintain reliability.6/9

I don’t think these orders change the facts that coal-fired power plants are old, expensive to run, and unlikely to operate very often or for many more years. 5/9

We have seen no evidence that any company is considering building a new coal plant or that supply chains or manufacturing could support it.4/9

DOE has no authority to prevent coal plant retirements or force an owner to lose money by running the plant. 3/9

Nothing here seems to change the economics, and its the economics that have held coal-fired power production down. 2/9