Chris Potalivo

Boalsburg

An article on excessive costs for power and Gov. Shapiro, beating his chest to fix it, ran recently.

Once again, the Democrats are trying to fix what they broke.

In April of 2023 the Bechtel Corporation abandoned their plans for a massive power plant in Renovo, Pa. This decimated a community and doomed us to these excessive prices.

So Democrat Gov. Shapiro, why don’t you fix what YOUR party broke and, somehow, convince the Bechtel Corp to resubmit the plans and this time put down the ignorant who do not understand how the electrical grid works.

This plant would have been online by now and would have stabilized prices with desperately needed production. How did this happen? Building on the Green New Deal which outlined a broad initiative, three PAC’s, one of which was supported by AOC out of New York, put the final nail in the coffin and doomed us to these rates.

Yes, a fossil fuel plant, but one based on natural gas which is far cleaner than coal and would have been piped directly from the fracking field, thus mitigating the risks of transportation. It was estimated that there were 100 years of supply.

It would have helped bridge the gap in the shortfall we are experiencing in power production for our area. A fix? The folks in Renovo could petition to have a large AI facility to build there, and overbuild the power plant, with the extra production going into the grid.