FERC has issued a new rule that requires utility companies and grid operators to plan for the future. How dare they!
last week that does something so daring, so bold, and so eminently logical that it’s a wonder it didn’t happen sooner. The new rule requires local utilities and regional grid operators to do the unthinkable — namely, look beyond their own parochial interests to plan how the nation’s electrical grid should be structured in the future. The goal is to ensure there will be plenty of electrical energy available for those who want it when they need it.
“We need to seize this moment,” Chairman Phillips said. “Over the last dozen years, FERC has worked on five after-action reports on lessons learned from extreme weather events that caused outages that cost hundreds of lives and millions of dollars. We must get beyond these after-action reports and start planning to maintain a reliable grid that powers our entire way of life. The grid cannot wait. Our communities cannot wait. Our nation cannot wait.
Many so-called red states are doing everything they can to prop up the oil and gas industry, which contributes so generously to their campaigns, by delaying the shift away from fossil fuels in any way they can. These clashing priorities make it difficult to design national policies. The situation is analogous to thein the Colorado River.
He anticipates that the provision will be useful in places where the participants have a history of working together, such as in New England. He is less optimistic about places such as the Southeast, where some utilities have stood in the way of transmission development because they want to limit the flow of inexpensive electricity from outside of their territories. Despite his concern, consumer and clean energy advocates in the Southeast have applauded the rule.
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