Grid operators push for more time on EPA plan
Achieving the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan requires more time, more regional cooperation and a “carbon price” — a de facto economic penalty for power plant carbon emissions — state utility commissioners were told yesterday.
Four senior power grid executives offered assessments of key engineering and political challenges confronting U.S. EPA’s proposed climate policy amendments to the Clean Air Act at the winter meeting of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). It is not clear which set of obstacles loomed larger.
