Power Sector Coalition Embraces CES With Strict 2030 GHG Target

Over a dozen power providers are backing a clean electricity standard (CES) and other measures to achieve an 80 percent cut in utility sector greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, possibly aiding Biden administration and Capitol Hill efforts to move infrastructure proposals containing such policies. “The U.S. should implement a broad suite of regulatory and legislative policies to enable deep decarbonization of the power sector, including a clean electricity standard that ensures the power sector, as a whole,...