It's one thing to shut them down. It's another to have something to take their place. And we've been very slow in getting the transmission to places where that extra power is. Solar power, for example, we have all kinds of solar power, but you've got to have wire to get it where it needs to go, and that wire doesn't exist. And so what I've been doing, we're going to have an opportunity to have a new director of Bonneville Power, and we're going to be weighing in and sharing our concerns with him or her. (16:07–16:15)
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Asserts that Oregon lacks the transmission infrastructure to distribute solar power effectively.
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