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Top Republicans raise alarm on Biden's power plant regs: 'Growing risks to electric reliability'
High-ranking Senate Republicans are calling for the nation's top energy regulator to immediately assess the impact President Biden's crackdown on fossil fuel power plants will have on electric grid reliability.
The two Republicans — Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. — penned a letter Wednesday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) four members. They expressed concern that Biden's power plant regulations would exacerbate grid reliability issues.
"The already-strong pressure for premature retirements of electric generating units coupled with the rising risks to electric reliability require you to convene representatives of entities subject to your jurisdiction and other interested parties in order to develop a record on the potential impact of the Clean Power Plan 2.0," Barrasso and Capito wrote.
"Without such a record, FERC’s consultations with EPA are likely to be ineffective," they continued. "EPA clearly lacks the expertise to project accurately the impact of its rulemaking on electric reliability without deeply informed and engaged participation from FERC and those subject to its jurisdiction that are charged with the obligation to generate and deliver electricity in order to meet continuous demand for electric service."
The two GOP senators requested FERC schedule a series of technical conferences to study the administration's power plant regulations and its "unjustifiable claims about the future availability of technologies."
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) unveiled power plant regulations targeting fossil fuel-fired power plant emissions as part of the administration's broader climate agenda. The agency said the plan would avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon pollution through 2042 via new standards forcing coal and gas plants to either utilize carbon capture technology or shut down....
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/to...plant-regs-growing-risks-electric-reliability
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In Texas 28% of our power is wind and solar. We are currently in a heat way. If the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow we don't have enough fossil fuel power to meet the demand. Power will go off if the wind and solar don't generate. Fortunately I have a generator wired into my home for emergencies.
High-ranking Senate Republicans are calling for the nation's top energy regulator to immediately assess the impact President Biden's crackdown on fossil fuel power plants will have on electric grid reliability.
The two Republicans — Energy and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. — penned a letter Wednesday to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) four members. They expressed concern that Biden's power plant regulations would exacerbate grid reliability issues.
"The already-strong pressure for premature retirements of electric generating units coupled with the rising risks to electric reliability require you to convene representatives of entities subject to your jurisdiction and other interested parties in order to develop a record on the potential impact of the Clean Power Plan 2.0," Barrasso and Capito wrote.
"Without such a record, FERC’s consultations with EPA are likely to be ineffective," they continued. "EPA clearly lacks the expertise to project accurately the impact of its rulemaking on electric reliability without deeply informed and engaged participation from FERC and those subject to its jurisdiction that are charged with the obligation to generate and deliver electricity in order to meet continuous demand for electric service."
The two GOP senators requested FERC schedule a series of technical conferences to study the administration's power plant regulations and its "unjustifiable claims about the future availability of technologies."
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) unveiled power plant regulations targeting fossil fuel-fired power plant emissions as part of the administration's broader climate agenda. The agency said the plan would avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon pollution through 2042 via new standards forcing coal and gas plants to either utilize carbon capture technology or shut down....
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/to...plant-regs-growing-risks-electric-reliability
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In Texas 28% of our power is wind and solar. We are currently in a heat way. If the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow we don't have enough fossil fuel power to meet the demand. Power will go off if the wind and solar don't generate. Fortunately I have a generator wired into my home for emergencies.