That saved, that saved 17 gigawatts of electric generating capacity. And the winter storm fern that hit our country in the last week of January this year, Hundreds, conservatively hundreds of Americans were, would have lost their lives if those 17 coal plants had closed. We pushed the east coast electricity grid in the United States absolutely to the limit. A storm Yuri hit five years ago in Texas. (01:45–01:53)
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