Two Congressmen from Western PA are pushing back on a proposed policy that they say jeopardizes the future of the Cleveland Cliffs Butler plant.
According to Congressmen Mike Kelly and Chris Deluzio, the Biden Administration is proposing a policy that would mandate the use of amorphous metal cores instead of cores made of grain-oriented electrical steel for transformers.
Currently, the Butler Cleveland Cliffs plant is the only facility in America that produces grain-oriented electrical steel.
Both Kelly and Deluzio said in a statement that this rule would put the future of the plant in jeopardy; they also believe that relying on foreign countries for amorphous metals is a national security issue.
“Finalizing this rule would significantly impact the production of distribution transformers, which are already difficult to obtain,” Deluzio and Kelly said in a letter to the Department of Energy. “Grid security and reliability are vital to our economic and national security. We respectfully urge you to make serious modifications that preserve utilization of GOES for transformer cores to the proposed rule and thank you for your consideration.”
