Utility Dive: McIntyre’s adoption of the category retirement narrative at Tuesday’s House hearing could indicate he is receptive to the arguments of coal and nuclear plant operators, who have long argued low wholesale power prices could lead to their elimination in restructured markets.
Multiple times during the hearing, McIntyre voiced concern about the permanent loss of coal or nuclear plants, saying the issue is “very much in the scope” of the commission’s grid resilience docket, set up early this year when regulators rejected a coal and nuke bailout request from the Department of Energy.
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