Is the reason that we are not building them here--is it the expense, the regulatory environment, the fear of the unknown, or a little bit of each?
Shelley Capito
The Public Record
That is an interesting technology, too, on the renewable side with the battery storage.
We are not building another plant like Longview in this country at this time, correct?
I think there are some people that think if you keep it in the ground, you can just bring it up as rapidly as you may need it.
In that case time is money if you have a permit application and you do not get permitted for five years, it exponentially increases the cost.
I want to be very supportive of that. I put that amendment into the energy bill to be supportive of this project because I think it could bear real fruit for the State of West Virginia.
We are now at a point, I think, where the United States is becoming one of the most dominant players in energy production in the world.
Senator Manchin and I are really pleased to be talking about something that we have much agreement on, probably all agreement on, and it is extremely important to our state.
I would hate to say, but the Pennsylvania tax credit that they have was a pretty big carrot for them.





