>> “Things are going to break,” she said. “We have an aging fleet that’s being run harder than it’s ever been run.” The conclusion that something will break ju

>> “Things are going to break,” she said. “We have an aging fleet that’s being run harder than it’s ever been run.” The conclusion that something will break just because it’s been run harder than ever is not based on “science and measurable facts”. Either the plants an grid are within their performance envelopes or they aren’t. These things are over provisioned precisely for these scenarios. A meaningful statement would have been based on how close to design capacity they are at. Previous usage is completely irrelevant.