EPA Weighs Early ESPS Role For FERC In Response To Reliability Concerns

EPA is suggesting it might ask the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to help states review the grid reliability impacts of their compliance plans for EPA's proposed climate rule for existing utilities sooner than what FERC officials have suggested, as one of several options to address critics' fears about the rule's potential impacts on reliability. While addressing a Feb. 25 FERC technical conference held in Denver on the regional impacts of the rule, EPA senior air office attorney Joseph Goffman...