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For Immediate Release
May 01, 2017
Contact: Peter True
Peter_True@energy.senate.gov
(202) 224-7826
May 01, 2017
Contact: Peter True
Peter_True@energy.senate.gov
(202) 224-7826
Cantwell, Colleagues To Perry: Renewable Energy Strengthens Grid Reliability, Improves Resiliency
DOE Inquiry Focuses on Less Competitive, Antiquated Power Sources
WASHINGTON,
D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
Committee Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Committee Democrats Ron Wyden
(D-Ore.), Debbie Stabenow
(D-Mich.), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Martin Heinrich (D.-N.M.), Mazie K.
Hirono (D-HI), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) wrote to Energy Secretary,
Rick Perry expressed concern about a Department of Energy study
examining electricity markets and reliability.
The
Senators noted that the study appears framed to promote less economic
electric generation technologies, such as coal and nuclear energy, at
the expense
of cleaner, more cost-competitive, and faster growing alternatives such
as wind and solar power.
“Mr.
Secretary, the notion that a 60 day review conducted by ideologues
associated with a Koch Brothers-affiliated think tank should supplant
research and analysis conducted by
the world’s foremost scientists and engineers would be a grave
disservice to American taxpayers. It would constitute nothing short of
an international embarrassment within a global research community that
has long-relied on U.S. technical leadership.
If DOE is going to take 60 days to perform a Study that the CEO of the California ISO said can be completed in an hour because the research has already been conducted, at the very least it is important that you consider the ample evidence that already exists. We fear that the Department is instead embarking on an initiative aimed at bolstering the views of a group of special interests seeking to resurrect electric generation technologies that can no longer successfully compete on their own. You should not allow this to happen.
If DOE is going to take 60 days to perform a Study that the CEO of the California ISO said can be completed in an hour because the research has already been conducted, at the very least it is important that you consider the ample evidence that already exists. We fear that the Department is instead embarking on an initiative aimed at bolstering the views of a group of special interests seeking to resurrect electric generation technologies that can no longer successfully compete on their own. You should not allow this to happen.
This
exercise is especially mystifying in light of your own experiences as
Governor. Under your leadership Texas demonstrated that renewable
energy can enhance fuel diversity,
reduce energy prices, and improve grid reliability and resilience. We
had mistakenly hoped you would also pursue these same results for the
nation.”
The full letter to Secretary Perry can be found here.
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