Eastern RTOs Express Confidence in Meeting Clean Power Plan Compliance
NY, New England Cite RGGI; PJM Fears ‘Go it Alone’ States
WASHINGTON — Representatives of PJM, ISO-NE and NYISO told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last week that they are prepared to implement their states’ plans for complying with the Environmental Protection Agency’s carbon emission rule but that the agency’s deadlines should be flexible to account for delays in building new gas pipelines and electric transmission.
PJM officials also told FERC in the third of four technical conferences on the Clean Power Plan that states that rebuff regional efforts to price CO2 emissions could overwhelm the RTO’s economic dispatch software, undermining reliability.
