Tell Congress to support booming batteries, not zombie coal plants!

Despite orders from the White House doubling down on trying to force coal plants to stay open while shoveling more subsidies and giveaways at the dying industry, coal plant retirements in the U.S. are projected to be higher in 2025 than 2024!

Coal plants are simply old, dirty, and very expensive to keep running. There’s essentially zero investor interest in new coal projects in America. There are only about 40,000 coal miner jobs left in the entire country; for comparison, over 70,000 people work at the Cracker Barrel restaurant franchise. Independent reports estimate that the president’s efforts to keep coal plants open will cost utility customers over $3 billion per year by 2028. Another study from RMI found that the emissions of U.S. coal plants cost Americans over $13 billion per year in healthcare costs due to additional strokes, heart attacks, and childhood asthma attacks exacerbated by air pollution.

Paying to prop up dying coal plants is like setting money on fire to boil a cauldron of toxic waste — it’s just a deeply stupid bad idea on every level, a huge waste that can hurt people and raise power bills even more but can’t achieve any useful purpose.

Fortunately, we do have a fast-growing source of clean, reliable, dispatchable power available to the American grid: batteries.

April through June 2025 was a record-high quarter for battery storage in the U.S., with 4.9 GW of grid-scale and 608 MW (0.6 GW) of residential storage installed. Grid-scale battery storage grew 63% year-on-year, while residential battery storage grew 132%!

Congressional leaders should face America towards the future, forcibly cut off the executive-branch giveaways to the rotting corpse of the coal industry in upcoming budget talks, and support fast-growing, investor-preferred, clean, and reliable battery power!

Tell Congress to support booming batteries, not zombie coal plants!