At our Congressional hearing on Wednesday, @AOC confidently said that a @Siemans report supports shutting down "tomorrow" the coal plant that provides 20% of Puerto Rico's power.
100% false. The report *does not even consider* a shutdown before 2027.
100% false. The report *does not even consider* a shutdown before 2027.
The smoking gun quote @AOC attributes to @Siemens is "No adverse impacts were identified on the transmission system with the retirement of AES coal." But I couldn't find any phrase like that in the report Siemens prepared for Puerto Rico. 
In fact I can't find @AOC's "quote" of @Siemens--"No adverse impacts were identified on the transmission system with the retirement of AES coal"--anywhere on the Internet.
While @AOC claims that the @Siemens report supports a shutdown of Puerto Rico's coal plant "tomorrow," the report in its dozens of scenarios, *does not even consider a shutdown before 2027*. And all its shutdown scenarios involve *building new fossil fuel infrastructure*!
Not only does @Siemens not support @AOC in shutting down the PR coal plant "tomorrow," it has publicly clarified that it does supporting any shutdown even in 2027 and that a shutdown "is more costly than the option of continuing operations, resulting in higher costs"!
To give @AOC every benefit of the doubt, I made a 34-minute video refuting every single claim she and her energy witness (an environmental lawyer) made in support of the deadly closure of the reliable coal plant that provides 20% of PR's electricity.
I have now demonstrated definitively that @AOC's energy claims from our hearing Wednesday were 100% false--and that her advocacy for the immediate shutdown of PR's coal plant is deadly. If she truly cares about the people of PR she will publicly recant.
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