The White House is weighing a bailout for the coal and nuclear power industry through an unprecedented use of national security powers they say is necessary to keep the power grid from going dark. A memo from the Department of Energy circulated this week calls for the administration to order power grid operators to buy electricity from a list of struggling coal and nuclear plants for two years “to forestall any further action towards retirement, decommissioning, or deactivation of such facilities.”
Source: FuelFix
