Coal Sector's ESPS Study Shows More Costs, Plant Retirements Than EPA

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) has released new modeling that predicts far higher costs and coal plant retirements than EPA expects for its proposed existing source performance standards (ESPS) to limit greenhouse gases (GHGs) at existing power plants, using assumptions that many critics of the rule have charged are more realistic than those the agency used. ACCCE Oct. 16 released the modeling , conducted by NERA Economic Consulting, to project “significant negative economic impacts” including total...