We should not have lost electricity when we just built this power plant.” “This power plant” was the brand new gas plant built less than six miles away from McWilliams house. The New Orleans Power Station is what’s known as a peaker plant, designed as a backup source of electricity whenever there’s a power shortage. They want a shift in power: from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy and from top-down decision making to bottom-up solutions. On top of that, critics of the plant believed there were better ways to strengthen the existing power grid than building a new fossil-fueled power plant. Entergy’s New Orleans Power Station is a “peaker plant” that was designed as a backup source of electricity whenever there’s a power shortage.

Source: The Nation November 01, 2021 19:18 UTC