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DOE official says natural gas, coal and nuclear kept power flowing during winter storm
Summary
Alex Fitzsimmons of the Department of Energy told the Scott Jennings show that emergency orders and dispatchable generators — including natural gas, coal and nuclear plants — supplied roughly 85% of power during a recent winter storm and that DOE actions prevented retirements of about 17 gigawatts.
Alex Fitzsimmons, director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response at the U.S. Department of Energy, said emergency orders and traditional generators kept power flowing during a recent nationwide winter storm.
"We deployed more than 64,000 personnel to rapidly restore power to almost 1,000,000 people who were impacted by the storm," Fitzsimmons said in an interview on the Scott Jennings show. He credited frontline workers and energy-sector crews for restoration efforts.
Fitzsimmons said most…
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