I worked for TXU in insulation (IT side) in the early 1990’s. Back then it was the same as it is now, that that was right after the 1989 incident (people forget too about 1983).
We’ve closed so many lignite plants since then, and it’s moronic to burn natural gas for electricity. We have more coal than we can use. We need to use it.
Oh I agree, but you have to build your cooling, water, and other infrastructure to survive the cold.
If you lose your tower, it doesn’t matter what the boiler is running. And the nukes lost their cooling pump
My point is that a coal fired boiler is as vurnable to freezing temps as nat gas. My towers up here are set up to run in the cold. The plants south of OKC are not. We lost a furnace because the water jacket is not able to be drained, and the power was dropped.