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I heard today an executive from our power company, Northwestern Energy, talking about the ability to handle this heatwave and our grid. She mentioned something about our giant coal fired plant, Colstrip, and how it is covering the demand that the Seattle/Portland areas are requiring right now. These are the areas that bought Colstrip's plants a few years back with the express purpose of shutting them down before their otherwise end of life. Luckily for them they had only gotten around to shutting down one of the plants so far so those coal powered A/C systems can keep pumping.
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