DOE under secretary confirms effort to save coal, nuclear plants

摘要

US Department of Energy Under SecretaryrnMark Menezes confirmed June 5 that DOE wasrnconsidering a proposal that would require gridrnoperators to buy power from coal and nuclearrnfacilities to stave off their retirements,rnechoing the national security rationale given inrna memo on the proposal leaked last week.rnSpeaking at the Energy InformationrnAdministration’s annual conference inrnWashington, Menezes said that power plantsrnrelying on the most secure fuels “are retiring atrnan alarming rate that if unchecked will threatenrnour ability to recover from intentional acts andrnnatural disasters.” He lamented a historic shiftrn“away from diverse fuel-secure resources to arngrowing dependence on pipeline-dependentrnand intermittent resources.”