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September 12, 2026

Energy Secretary Keeps Northwest Coal Generating Plant Online

Emergency order addresses critical grid reliability issues in the Northwestern U.S..

Here is what this household does tonight.

Tonight

Treat this as an outage-or-tap problem until we name it in the plan.

Water you can reach, a charged bank, the fridge card.

Source: DOE. We do not reprint the story. We do not invent the order.