Industry Officials and Experts
"Our assessments demonstrate that the electric grid is operating ever closer to the edge where more frequent and more serious disruptions are increasingly likely."
Jim Robb
President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources | June 1, 2023
"We’ve been watching carbon capture technology for some time, and it’s at least seven to 10 years to put a system into place in a commercial basis if it would work which is unclear to us at this time. The rule requires it by 2030 and there’s just no way we can make that."
Patrick O’Loughlin
President and Chief Executive Officer Buckeye Power, Inc. and Ohio Rural Electric Cooperatives
House Committee on Energy and Commerce | June 6, 2023
"In some cases, generational retirements are outpacing new installations, and this is resulting in reduced reserve margins."
Clair Moeller
President and COO, Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
Politico Pro | March 14, 2023
"… one of the important things that these plants provide is the ability for the grid to maintain voltage and maintain frequency and to resist disturbances. Other resources can't do that nearly as well as large spinning mass generation. And that's why the loss of coal plants and natural gas plants and nuclear plants is so concerning from a grid reliability perspective."
Jim Robb
President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
House Committee on Energy and Natural Resources | June 1, 2023
"I just want to note the markets have worked… But what is different is that there is this massive policy pressure. It’s really pressure for generators that are dispatchable to retire. And the retirement dates are not tied to demonstration that the replacement capacity is there."
Manu Asthana
President and CEO PJM Interconnection
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources | June 1, 2023
"First, coal plants are being prematurely retired. Second, there is no technology to deliver around-the-clock base load electricity to replace this retired generation. It has to be tested, proven, financeable, and also connected to the transmission grid by 2028 when all these coal plants are retired. In fact, it's doubtful anything will be ready by about 2035"
David Tudor
CEO, Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources | June 1, 2023
"This proposal will further strain America’s electric grid and undermine decades of work to reliably keep the lights on across the nation. And it is just the latest instance of EPA failing to prioritize reliable electricity as a fundamental expectation of American consumers. We’re concerned the proposal could disrupt domestic energy security, force critical always available power plants into early retirement, and make new natural gas plants exceedingly difficult to permit, site, and build."
Jim Matheson
CEO, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
Response to EPA’s Proposed Carbon Rule | May 11, 2023
"Renewables also don’t necessarily map to where demand is, unlike fossil fuels, which can be transported and burned near where they’re consumed. That means more transmission lines are needed and building them can take from seven to 15 years."
John Moura
Director of Reliability Assessment, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
NERC 2022 Long-Term Reliability Assessment | December 15, 2022
"When you do the math – when you look at the rate of retirements, you look at the rate of growth, and you add in the current rate of throughput for our queue – we are headed for some trouble. And that trouble is likely to find us later in this decade"
Manu Asthana
President and CEO PJM Interconnection
Electric Power Supply Association Competitive Power Summit | March 21, 2023
(About electricity) "It's seven percent of the economy, but it's the first seven percent because without it, nothing else works."
Jim Robb
President and CEO, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
Fortnightly Magazine | September, 2022