Coal’s necessity to US electricity grid a priority to some, a myth to others
Free-market think tank R Street Institute released a report in 2017 concluding baseload retirements do not necessarily lead to less reliable electricity. The concern over baseload retirements, the author of the study said, just “masks an underlying preference for certain fuel types.” A report prepared by The Brattle Group for the Natural Resources Defense Council, or NRDC, came to a similar conclusion.
