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Ed Markey: Intermittent renewables are parasitic on backup power from reliable fossil fuels.

On the recordNovember 7, 2017
Intermittent renewables are parasitic on backup power from reliable fossil fuels.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the dependency of renewables on fossil fuels.

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