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Power Grid Operator: EPA Climate Plan Would Raise Costs

As Texas regulators weigh a response to President Obama’s proposal to combat climate change, the operator of the state’s main electric grid says the plan would raise energy costs and threaten reliability – particularly in the next few years. In an analysis released Monday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said the plan — which […]

Pence to Congress: Block Obama on Coal

Former Congressman and current Governor Mike Pence (R-IN) urged members of the Congress to use the power of the purse to stop the president from acting unilaterally on the issues of environmental regulations and immigration on Thursday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” “The power of the Congress is the power of the purse…whether it be blocking any […]

Overseers Flag Concerns as System Shifts to Gas, Renewables

A national surge toward natural gas and renewable energy driven by cheap gas and new government rules and policies is creating reliability concerns — especially in the Midwest, New York and Texas — and weakening buffers for blackouts, grid overseers warned today. And those problems loom even before considering the impact of U.S. EPA’s power […]

US Clean Power Plan Poses Risks to Electricity Reliability

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan could harm the reliability of the power grid and may need to be modified before it is finalised. In an initial review released on Wednesday, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) assessed how proposed limits on greenhouse emissions from existing fossil-fuelled power stations would affect the […]

Report Shows EPA Rule Plays ‘a Guessing Game’ with Reliability — Whitfield

The chairman of a key House Energy and Commerce subcommittee yesterday embraced the U.S. power grid overseer’s statement that U.S. EPA’s greenhouse gas proposal may endanger power supply. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) said in a statement that the North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s new report, released yesterday, underscores what he has said for months: that […]

NERC Says Schedule for US EPA’s CO2 Rule Could Threaten Power Grid Reliability

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants has aggressive schedule and includes assumptions that may jeopardize the reliability of the US power grid, the North North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Wednesday. EPA’s proposed rule, which would to cut CO2 emissions to 30% below 2005 levels […]

Kansas Regulators, Commission Staff Slam EPA Carbon Proposal

Utility commissioners in Kansas are the latest group to take aim at the Obama administration’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-burning power plants, calling U.S. EPA’s Clean Power Plan a federal overreach that will burden consumers and the state’s economy. In a 40-page report submitted to U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, the Kansas Corporation Commission […]

It’s Foolish to Discard Coal as a Power Source

Michael Silver is right to cite the importance of mining to renewable-energy technologies, as well as the hypocrisy of those who support the latter (renewables) while opposing the former (mining) in “The Environmentalist’s Catch-22” (op-ed, Oct. 9). But he’s wrong to urge the elimination of traditional energy sources like coal, both from an economic and environmental perspective. […]

Energy Cost Rise: A Pledge Obama (Unfortunately) Kept

Inflation: We’ve chastised President Obama many times for failing to live up to promises he made when running for the office. So in fairness, we want to credit him for fulfilling one of them: his pledge to raise energy costs. In early 2008, candidate Obama told the San Francisco Chronicle that “under my plan … electricity […]