Trump Orders Pentagon to Buy Coal Power to Support Declining Industry
The president said the order “directs the Department of War to work directly with coal plants on the new power purchasing agreements, ensuring that we have more reliable power, and stronger and more resilient grid power,” using his preferred term for the Defense Department.
“We're going to be buying a lot of coal through the military now, and it's going to be less expensive, and actually much more effective than what we have been using for many, many years, and again, with the environmental progress that's been made on coal, it's going to be just as clean,” Trump added. “Under our leadership, we're becoming a massive energy exporter.”
Trump has long sought to prop up the American coal sector, which has steadily lost ground as alternative energy sources expand. According to projections from the US Energy Information Administration, coal-based electricity production is expected to fall 2% this winter compared with the previous year, while solar and hydropower output is forecast to rise by 14% and wind by 4%. Overall, coal’s year-on-year output is anticipated to drop by 7%.
In response to these declines, Trump directed the Energy Department to provide funding to coal plants in West Virginia, Ohio, and North Carolina “to keep them online and keep those plans open.”
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