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Patrick Morrisey: “Coal is still going to play a big role 12.9 gigawatts of…”

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West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey on $700 million coal plant investment announced by Trump

Published | Video Starts at 02:30

… by the way, helps out West Virginia because as we're growing and we're very ambitious in terms of our energy goals to get to 50 gigawatts of energy by 2050, Coal is still going to play a big role 12.9 gigawatts of coal fired power plants. Now that can go up a lot because it's part of the portfolio we need. Americans, I think when they imagine coal, they imagine a time in America when that was a very large job generating industry. (02:30–02:36)

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Asserts that coal will contribute 12.9 gigawatts to West Virginia's energy production.

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