Second Post in Blog Series Now Out: Administration’s Efforts to Save Failing Coal, Nuke Plants
WASHINGTON—Resources for the Future (RFF) today published the second of two posts in a blog series that began yesterday summarizing recent efforts by members of government and industry aimed at encouraging the Trump administration to save existing coal and nuclear power plants in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern wholesale markets operated by PJM.
The authors are RFF Senior Fellow Karen Palmer and Sue Tierney, an RFF board member, Senior Advisor at Analysis Group, and former assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Energy.
Read the new post, published today—Federal Interventions in Wholesale Power Markets: Examining the Implications for Market Performance and National Security.
Read the first post in the series: Grid Resilience, Generation Portfolios, and National Security.
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