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Joe Manchin: “I know FERC is very much aware of the baseload plants and basically I think we have baseload today, and the definition…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2017
I know FERC is very much aware of the baseload plants and basically I think we have baseload today, and the definition of baseload means uninterruptible power, that is going to be coal and nukes.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Manchin discusses the importance of baseload power sources like coal and nuclear.

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