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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4647201" data-attributes="member: 58386">THE NGD is on it's way to becoming reality . The US has gone from 540 coal fired plants to 260 and most will be retired by 2030. Why? it's not just because they're dirty. Dirty or not they've become too damn expensive to operate. First Energy found that out when it created a new subsidiary company then took all of their old coal and nukes then threw them into the deregulated power market and believed that they could compete...Wrong! The entire subsidiary filed for bankruptcy after just a few years stiffing creditors 3 billon in unpaid bills. Today in my county that at one time was a big coal producer has permits filed for 3 new solar fired power plants. Sure there'll will still be a few base load plants around for a while but renewables are not only the future of the power generation industry... it's the present.</blockquote>