National Coal Council
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Sep 22, 2026
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
And we're having a national impact, as I will talk about and a number of other of the speakers will talk about over the next day.
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
A number of our board members and our CEO, Jonathan, have been appointed to the National Coal Council by President Trump himself.
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
Jonathan has been instrumental in representing the interests of the North Dakota coal industry on the National Coal Council.
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
The National Coal Council's recent report to the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, is titled Maximizing the Value of the U.S. Coal Fleet.
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
And that report was effectively ghostwritten in large part by Jonathan Fortner, our CEO.
Todd BrickhouseGUEST
This report will help shape the national policy for at least the remainder of the Trump administration.
Jonathan FortnerMODERATOR
So it's interesting to see that shift.
Jonathan FortnerMODERATOR
And I think, uh, Representative Fedorchuk, you know, that the time that you've been, um, both at PSC, the work that we had done at MISO, um, we had just, uh, with National Coal Council over the past six months- We had worked to put a bunch of market reform concepts, and a lot of them were ideas that you and I had come up with of, you know, valuing, you know, the, the reliable attributes, um, you know, and, and other kind of market signals.
Jonathan FortnerMODERATOR
Um, you know, what can be done when...
Jonathan FortnerMODERATOR
So National Coal Council, we put those in a study, we give them, uh, to the Department of Energy, um, you know, and then hopefully those go somewhere.
Jonathan FortnerMODERATOR
But, you know, what, what can be done, you know, whether with, say, in Congress or, you know, with the background that you have, how could we push forward to get more value for our electrons?
Julie FedorchakGUEST
Uh, well, it's fun to think back to the, some of those MISO days, and I look at, uh, the reforms that we've worked on, and it's still some of the work I'm most proud of.
Jonathan FortnerGUEST
If reliability has value, the resources that provide the reliability must have value as well.
Jonathan FortnerGUEST
Through the National Coal Council and with our industry partners, we've been advocating for electricity markets to better recognize the attributes provided by dependable base load generation.
Jonathan FortnerGUEST
Fuel security has value, dispatchability has value, resilience has value, and the ability to generate electricity around the clock when the grid needs it also has value.
Jonathan FortnerGUEST
Our lignite plants have something particularly valuable, years of fuel reserves sitting immediately adjacent to the power plant.