The Price Tag For Uprooting America’s Electric Grid

What does it cost to keep the lights on? The question is surprisingly difficult to answer. Yet it affects the quality of life for everyone.

The answer matters now more than ever. On Aug. 3, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its Clean Power Plan for Existing Power Plants, which requires states to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 32% (from 2005 levels) by 2030. To achieve this goal, states will have to close coal-fired electricity-generating plants and replace them with natural gas and renewables. The Energy...