Resounding "No" for NOPR
On Monday, five commissioners unanimously rejected Energy
Secretary Rick Perry's plan to shore up resilience of coal-fired and
nuclear power plants. The commissioners' 5-0 decision against the Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking ordered U.S. grid operators to provide an
additional assessment of "naturally occurring and man-made threats" to
their plants within 60 days, functionally delaying any further action until at least April.
Though
he voted "no" along with his four co-commissioners, FERC Commissioner
Neil Chatterjee remains optimistic about the potential for targeted
reforms for coal and nuclear operators. The former FERC Chairman issued
this statement after the vote "major regulatory reform efforts often can
take several years to complete. ... But I believe that the record
compiled in this proceeding speaks to the prudence of considering, as
soon as practicable, whether interim measures may be needed to avoid
near-term
bulk power system resilience challenges that could result from the
rapid, unprecedented changes in our generation resource mix."
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