Executive Order 14386: Strengthening United States National Defense With America's Beautiful Clean Coal Power Generation Fleet

What does Executive Order 14386 do?

The Secretary of War, in coordination with Energy, was to pursue power purchase agreements or similar contracts serving military installations and other mission-critical sites, prioritizing reliability and resilience criteria.

Later official evidence reviewed September 26, 2026: Defense Logistics Agency Energy issued solicitation SP060426R0409 for a nationwide coal-based power-purchase arrangement at Department of War installations, expressly under EO 14386. A solicitation is not an award, built facility, or proof of improved grid reliability.

Reading the operative provisions of Executive Order 14386

EO 14386 directs Defense and Energy to seek long-term power-purchase agreements from U.S. coal plants for critical defense facilities and other national-security infrastructure. It asks agencies to assess generation capacity and support reliable power for missions. The Federal Register text sets the procurement direction; it does not require every coal plant to remain open or guarantee that a particular facility will receive a contract.

Long-term power agreements can provide revenue certainty to generators and supply assurances to federal installations. Any contract must comply with federal procurement rules, appropriations and the agency’s energy needs. Grid reliability also depends on transmission, fuel availability and regional system planning. The order’s preferred source does not remove the need to compare cost, reliability and performance against other available generation.

Coal plants remain subject to environmental permits, worker-safety rules and applicable emissions standards. The order does not repeal those requirements or establish that every coal plant is “clean” in the same technical sense. To see whether the policy changes supply, examine solicitations, signed contracts, facility operations and grid reliability data. A directive to seek purchases is a procurement instruction, not proof of new capacity or lower electricity costs.