Two-Part Blog Series: Administration's Efforts to Save Failing Coal, Nuke Plants
WASHINGTON—Resources for the Future (RFF) today is posting the first of a timely two-part blog series on “Grid Resilience, Generation Portfolios, and National Security.” 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.
In the first post today and the second (which will be out later this week), the authors summarize recent efforts to encourage the Trump administration to save failing coal and nuclear power plants in PJM-operated wholesale markets.
The first post, out today, describes these recent proposals, including the latest proposal, which would rely upon authorities set forth under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
In the second blog, set to post this week, the authors focus on the implications of relying on the act for efficient performance of wholesale electricity markets, with some thoughts on how those markets do or do not reflect national security issues and carbon impacts.
Read the first post: Grid Resilience, Generation Portfolios, and National Security.
(RFF will notify reporters on our mailing lists when the second posting occurs).
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