GOP State Utility Regulators Argue EPA Power Plant Rule Risks Reliability

Republican state utility regulators are amplifying calls from other GOP officials that EPA’s proposed power plant greenhouse gas standards would introduce grid reliability risks, outlining such claims at a Capitol Hill hearing that more broadly served as a venue to debate the merits of increasing wind and solar power. EPA’s power plant rules would put utilities, customers and state regulators in an “impossible position,” asserted Tricia Pridemore, a Republican member of the Georgia Public Service Commission, during a Feb. 14...