With All Alarms Sounding, EPA Has Few Answers and Less Planning

In the hours before the regulators at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) sat down with stakeholders from across the country to discuss the nation’s deteriorating grid reliability, the urgency of the gathering was underscored by a new and deeply unsettling winter reliability assessment. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) found in its most […]

On November 15, 2023
Anthony Campbell, Clean Power Plan 2.0, East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, James Danly, John Barrasso, Joseph Goffman, Mark Christie, Mike Bryson, National Mining Association (NMA), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), PJM Interconnection, Rich Nolan, Shelley Moore Capito

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EPA’s UnINiformed Decisions

Who exactly did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) consult about grid reliability when constructing its so-called Clean Power Plan 2.0? Formal comments on the rule have made it rather clear who EPA didn’t consult: the very folks tasked with keeping the lights on have made it abundantly clear the rule is a grave danger […]

On August 16, 2023
Clean Power Plan 2.0, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), grid reliability, Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), James Danly, Jim Robb, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)