You can not make this stuff up if you tried >>
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(Kansas) EV Battery Factory Will Require So Much Energy It Needs A Coal Plant To Power ItA $4 billion Panasonic electric vehicle battery factory in De Soto, Kansas, will help satisfy the Biden administration’s efforts to get everyone into an EV.It also will help extend the life of a coal-fired power plant.Panasonic broke ground on the facility last year.
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The Japanese company was slated to receive $6.8 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, which has been pouring billions into electric vehicles and battery factories as part of its effort to transition America away from fossil fuels.In testimony to the Kansas City Corporation Commission, a representative of Evergy, the utility serving the factory, said that the 4 million-square-foot Panasonic facility creates “near term challenges from a resource adequacy perspective."
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As a result, the utility will continue to burn coal at a power plant near Lawrence, Kansas, and it will delay plants to transition units at the plant to natural gas.
.Oct 1, 2023 · 3:07 PM UTC
OMG...its worse than I thoughtupon futher investigation looking at the document filed by Evergy with the Kansas Corporation Commission (with my personal annotations) >>>
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