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Marcus Hawkins: “With this big decarbonization push across the country, a lot…”

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Electric Wire, Ep. 39 - Marcus Hawkins discusses his role leading the Organization of MISO States

Published | Video Starts at 50:44

And because of some of the rules of these wholesale markets, a lot of nuclear plants were losing money at certain times. And now With this big decarbonization push across the country, a lot of utilities are seeing these [nuclear] plants that they retired early and really kind of regretting it. And so it's a, it's a, it's a big loss. And you know, with hindsight, you know, it'd be really obvious to say we shouldn't have retired some of these … (50:44–50:57)

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Asserts that utilities regret retiring nuclear plants early due to the national decarbonization push.

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