U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. has published an opinion piece in the Washington Times about his plan for Kansas to produce clean, affordable, and reliable energy sourced from natural gas and nuclear in the future, as well as deficiencies in Kansas’ energy systems that are currently served by renewable sources. While you may click HERE to read Senator Marshall’s op-ed in its entirety, he said in part,
“With nearly 50% of our electricity coming from wind, and solar beginning to utilize the same infrastructure, my home state of Kansas has a positive clean energy story to share… While we are proud of this progress, Kansas is paying considerably more in electricity costs than most of our neighbors… Simply stated, even with state and federal subsidizes to prop them up, wind and solar energy cannot compete with coal and natural gas financially and cannot compete with them or nuclear on reliability… As we look to the future, I do see other low hanging fruit, and I believe our challenges are actually opportunities… My plan would be to halt the construction of new coal power plants, and work aggressively to convert all existing coal plants across the world to natural gas or nuclear over the next two decades… Based upon our models, this will realistically have a greater actual, not just theoretical, impact than the Paris Climate Agreement, whose solutions are for the most part expensive, unachievable and unproven theories… Kansans are locked in on leaving this world cleaner, safer, and healthier than we found it, for our children, and grandchildren, and future generations. We’re doing this because it’s in our DNA, because it’s the right thing to do. We are going to do this the same way we survived other hardships, by using common sense and real-world experiences combined with ingenuity, innovation and hard work.”