SB4 prevents a utility company from shutting down a “fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit” without demonstrating that it would result in reliability and resilience of the electric grid as well as cost savings for customers.
The Senate passed SB4 on March 2, 2023, by a vote of 25 to 8. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill assists with efforts to save Kentucky’s coal power plants amid an unconstitutional war on fossil fuels that seeks to deny local citizens their right to access the natural energy resources in the Bluegrass State. Rather than submit to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for “sustainable development,” which threatens to reduce our standards of living and compromise the integrity of our utility infrastructure, Kentucky should act to stop the “climate change” grift and reject all attempts by power-hungry globalist elites to further regulate the use of coal or other fossil fuels. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment were intended to serve as a bulwark against undue interference with free-market enterprise.