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I think we should keep the coal plant in warm storage just in case. One big hail storm/tornado could cripple this system. Just food for thought in an emergency.
In fairness, I don’t think that a coal power plant would fare any better against a tornado.
You mean like what happened in Texas? Oh wait that happened to their coal plants too.
It is neither cheap nor easy to keep a coal plant in working order with a supply of fuel, “just in case”. Especially one that was set to retire anyway so probably has a lot of deferred maintenance and end of life components. Very much not worth it
Redundancies for plant outages are already a feature of the grid
Nah, convert it to nuclear
I would have suggested that as its the best bang for the buck. But people lose their mind when its on the table…
You want nuclear plant and natural disaster to meet each other?
I’m not sure why you’re getting down votes for this. Isn’t having some redundancy or backup plan a good idea? What am I missing here?
Likely because the coal plant was set to retire anyway. No point in paying someone millions to keep this coal plant as a backup for rare events.
The Power company will have contingencies and the national grid to rely on, which are cheaper than keeping an old coal plant warm.