Fossil-fueled peaker power plants, once embraced by utilities for their rapid response capabilities, have entered a new moment in time. Peakers are the power plants that fire up during high peaks of electricity demand, and they are often the dirtiest plants on the grid. Concrete scientific evidence of the harm that they cause to the communities around them has been established. These neighborhoods are disproportionately low-income and/or communities of color. This is a statistical fact that is now easily mapped and illustrated. With these established facts, fossil peakers are no longer the darlings of the grid.
