3 Reasons Rapid Retirement of Power Plants Harms Grid Security.

The rapid retirement of power plants contributes to power grid security vulnerabilities for the following reasons:

• rapid retirement of power plants relies on lowest short-term costs & ignores long-term considerations such as the security issues relatef to an overreliance on natural gas;
• when a power plant closes, there are an additional 4 indirect jobs lost, which creates economic insecurity; and
• baseload power plants have the highest forms of power plant security and resilliency.

Jim Hunter, the former director of the IBEW Utility Department | Charleston Gazette Mail | Jim Hunter: Rapid retirement of power plants endangers grid security