Dallas (WBAP/KLIF News) – Energy Secretary Rick Perry has ordered his agency to review the stability of the nation’s electric grid. The former Texas governor sent a memo to employees Friday.
Bloomberg News first reported the memo, which told employees to launch a two month investigation of how “regulatory burdens” may have led to the early retiring of coal and nuclear power plants.
Also on Friday, Perry spoke at an Earth Day conference in Dallas.
“The best job I ever had in my life was being the governor of the State of Texas,” he said.
Perry had attended the opening of a carbon capture plant near Houston last week. The plant is the largest of its kind in the world.
The plant is operated by NRG Energy. The company says the facility captures a ton of carbon dioxide every 17 seconds.
“It’s taking that CO2, putting it into a pipeline, shipping it 80 miles and taking an oil field that was making 300 barrels a day to 15,000 barrels a day,” Perry says.
Perry says the Department of Energy is working at its labs to make projects like that more accessible around the world.
“You think our friends in China couldn’t use that technology?” he asked. “If we will make available these innovations, then I am quite comfortable with the future of this globe.”
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