By releasing a proposed replacement for the Clean Power Plan, the Trump administration once again showed its determination to save struggling coal-fired power plants. But some of the nation’s largest operators of the plants don’t appear to be reaching for the rope.
Word of the release of the Trump administration’s so-called Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule proposal came on the first day of last week’s Electrification 2018 conference. The event, organized by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), brought together more than 1,800 electric power industry stakeholders to discuss economy-wide electrification in the United States and beyond.
