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Doug Burgum: “17 gigawatts of baseload coal remained open and that was…”

Featuring: Doug Burgum, Republican | U.S. Secretary of the Interior | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:50

In this last year, the Trump administration, through the 202C authorities that Chris Wright had as Secretary of Energy and also just utilities realizing that they were putting themselves in a precarious over rotation towards intermittent unreliable sources. 17 gigawatts of baseload coal remained open and that was critical to getting through the peak winter days this winter. So again the administration is fully supportive and appreciate your support for this. Well, thank you. And so kind of, you know, moving on from there. (01:50–02:00)

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