Nearly 90-percent of the generation outages during Winter Storm Elliott were among fossil fuel power plants
Though the calendar has flipped to spring, an item in the news recently has me still thinking about winter. Specifically, the time right around Christmas. I don’t think Pennsylvanians realize just how close we all were to going dark last Christmas. I’m talkingnew report from PJM
You know what literally saved Christmas? It was the 31 nuclear reactors in PJM, including those in Pennsylvania. PJM found nuclear plants overperformed and were the difference in avoiding the lights – and heat – going out for millions. Five years ago, I joined a bipartisan group of state lawmakers to form the first-ever Nuclear Energy Caucus in Pennsylvania. One of our top priorities was to focus on the value that each energy resource offers Pennsylvania and our citizens. The fact that policymakers did not take decisive and forward-looking action to preserve TMI proves that nuclear power is not properly valued when compared to other sources of electricity.
Many of us recall the Polar Vortex of 2014. That brutally cold weather similarly caused over 20-percent of PJM’s generation to go offline. So, PJM instituted changes in 2016 that were supposed to address those problems. Yet despite these changes, the grid performed even worse this time around. Again, I can’t help but believe that allowing TMI to prematurely close – a reliable source of clean energy – contributed to that poor performance.
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