Riley Moore: “If coal was not there, we would have had blackouts…”

“I mean, that's something you could really rely upon as coal. Well, yeah, if you look at the grid output during that big freeze that we had here just recently, coal spiked, coal split. If coal was not there, we would have had blackouts, brownouts, people would have been freezing in their homes. So coal came and saved the day. You know, obviously when, when we're needed, then everybody is okay with that. But you got to think in this country we have really what I would call a terawatt challenge.” (02:43–02:50)

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