In 2018, I sat on a regulatory panel to assess the plans of Manitoba Hydro to build an interconnecting high tension power line into Minnesota to replace electricity from coal powered plants in the US Midwest.
The evidence presented to the panel was valuable as a fascinating lesson in Canadian history but it also identified the significant, idled power generating capabilities of the United States. This was, in fact, the business case that George Soros used to justify the purchase of a majority position in Peabody Coal, one of the largest owners of idled, coal-fired, electricity generation. I assume that, seven years later, things have not changed very much.
