Before the Trump administration issues any orders to bail out uneconomic power plants across the country, as the president has called for, let’s tally the winners and losers.

On the one hand, the plan would pay a small number of generators to stay in business long after the market would otherwise have told them they’re not needed. Good for them, and their fuel suppliers.

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