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Patrick Morrisey: “Requests for up to $1.4 billion in new assets to help the…”

Featuring: Patrick Morrisey, Republican | Governor of West Virginia

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Governor Morrisey Announces Major Energy Investments in Parkersburg.

Published | Video Starts at 09:10

Just recently we submitted an application to the Trump administration and their DOE to expand the reasonable useful life of coal. And that those are Requests for up to $1.4 billion in new assets to help the coal fired power plants extend the reasonable useful life out to 2045, 2050. That's incredible. Gas, coal and nuclear. We're working on nuclear as well. This is West Virginia's Comeback. West Virginia is positioned to be America's battery. (09:10–09:24)

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