Inside Clean Energy: Here’s Why Some Utilities Support, and Others Are Wary of, the Federal Clean Energy Proposal
RFF Senior Fellow Karen Palmer lends her expertise to an Inside Climate News piece about the Clean Electricity Performance Program.
At the same time, companies that have been slow to embrace renewable energy will have some advantages in meeting the goals, Karen Palmer, director of the electric power program at the research group Resources for the Future.
“You’re at a starting point where you haven’t exhausted the low-cost options,” she said.
For example, a company could close a coal-fired power plant and develop several wind farms, taking advantage of the low costs of buying wind energy. This trade-off is not as available for utilities that have already closed most of their coal plants and developed most of the best locations for wind farms.
