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On the recordJuly 11, 2018
if you are going to shut down a coal plant which is providing baseload to substitute in a renewable and on that particular day the sun and the wind decide to take a break, as Mr. Murchie would suggest, do you have in your algorithm, we have to have the presence of natural gas backup in order to make this conversion from baseload of coal and nukes to a renewable centric, more renewable centric, grid?
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Bill Cassidy
Republican · Louisiana

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Cassidy questions the feasibility of transitioning to renewables without natural gas backup.

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