One of my favorite stories from the weekend is a $4 billion Panasonic Electric Vehicle

Battery Factory in Desotto, Kansas and Kansas's Booming Man.

They want factories and business in the state of Kansas and they're getting them.

So this $4 billion Panasonic Electric Vehicle Battery Factory, I was trying to help satisfy

the Biden administration's efforts to get everyone into an EV, good luck.

But it's going to go, it's going to also extend the life of a coal-fired power plant

because they can't build the batteries without the coal-fired power plant.

I mean if that doesn't explain where we're at, I don't know what does.

So Panasonic broke ground on this facility last year and the Japanese company was slated

to receive $6.8 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act and has been pouring billions

into electric vehicles and battery factories as part of its effort to transition America

away from fossil fuels.

It's just silly.

However, the factory is going to require between 200 and 250 megawatts of electricity to operate.

That's roughly the amount of power needed for a small city.

So in testimony to the Kansas City Corporation Commission, which is the state's equivalent

of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, this article is from the Cowboy State Daily

out of Wyoming.

They believe that, yeah, you know what, the near-term challenges from a resource adequacy

perspective is that the 4 million square foot Panasonic facility, we're going to go ahead

and need that power plant to stay online.

And so any of your plans to delay the plant, any of your plans to make the plant transition

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