No, there were not rolling blackouts across Montana on Tuesday.
There were 30 minutes when the 900 or so residents of Jordan and Circle were without electricity. The local electric cooperative told customers what was up on social media. Once word got to Twitter, the fuse was lit.
As a winter juggernaut left millions of Americans freezing without power, politicians in Montana used the crisis to ratchet up their rhetoric about fossil fuels, President Joe Biden and a pivot to clean energy.
âPlease see my statement on the reports of rolling blackouts in Montana,â tweeted Montanaâs U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale. The rolling blackouts today in Montana, as a result of strain on our shared power grid with other states, demonstrate the dangerous consequences of transitioning away from reliable fossil fuel-based power sources. It is obscene that Montana ratepayers are being forced to ration electricity in subzero temperatures a month into the Biden administration.â
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What a power plant costs Montana customers might not be the determining factor for whether it stays on utility bills under a proposed law drawing some support from the Montana Public Service Commission.
Commissioners on Tuesday weighed the merits of not making decisions about coal-fired power plants without first considering the economic impacts to host communities.
Commissioner Randy Pinocci said his constituents in Eastern Montana were ready to pay more for electricity to keep Lewis and Clark power plant operating.
Owned by Montana Dakota Utilities, the coal-fired power plant near Sidney will be closing in a few weeks.