U.S. grid officials raise alarm on power plant closures
NRG's coal-fired W.A.Parish power plant in Richmond. Fears arise of lower reliability and an increase in blackouts as fossil-fuel and nuclear plants are shutting down at a rapid pace and are replaced by cleaner but less consistent forms of generation.WASHINGTON – U.S.
Manu Asthana, the CEO of PJM, which stretches across 13 states in the Eastern U.S. and is the country’s largest power grid The warnings come amid a wider political debate around whether the United States is moving reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power grids too rapidly, pittingHundreds of power plants, representing more than 87,000 megawatts of coal-, nuclear- and natural gas-fired generation, have retired in the United States over the past five years as power grids age and adjust to investor pressure and tougher state regulations around climate change, according to data from the Energy Information...
The United States is the largest natural gas producer in the world, exporting it to countries around the world through LNG tankers running largely from the Gulf Coast. At the same time, the reliability of the gas system itself has fallen into increasing question in recent years,
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