Electric grid operators warn U.S. Supreme Court that new EPA rules will cause widespread blackouts
For grid operators to intervene in a case asking the Supreme Court to remand regulations back to the agency is unprecedented. The operators' main argument is about the impact the EPA's rules will have on grid reliability.
The word "rules" is mentioned 9 times. "Law" mentioned zero times. Rules are not laws. Ignore
Very valid point... I have worked with utilities for decades... never seen one with the courage to ignore such rules... the fact this amicus brief was even filed was for them an act of amongst the greatest courage in a century... could change.
Small communities need to get their heads around self sufficiency in every regard as the social security nets are shrinking extremely fast
Very similar to a covid mandate. Not an actual law, but people followed suit nonetheless. Ridicule and shame followed for those few with the courage to stand against. Strange times.
Organizations that manage, coordinate and monitor electricity service for 156 million Americans across 30 states are warning that the Biden-Harris administration’s power plant rule will be catastrophic for the nation’s grid. Four regional trade organizations (RTO), as they’re called, recently filed an amicus brief, also known as a friend of the court brief, in support of a multi-state lawsuit against the EPA over the rule.
The EPA released the rules in April. They require coal-fired power plants that will be operating past 2039 to begin implementing carbon-capture technologies in just eight years. New gas-fired power plants will also need to add the technologies, with those operating 40% of their annual capacity or more to add carbon capture starting in 2032.
Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, co-founder and researchers with Always On Energy Research, performed an analysis on behalf of the North Dakota Transmission Authority on the impacts the rules would have on the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), an RTO that covers a swath of the center of the U.S. The researchers say they found a number of problems. The EPA grossly overestimated the ability of intermittent wind and solar to deliver reliable electricity during peak demand periods, according to the analysis, and it also found the agency didn’t perform any reliability analysis on the rules. The result would be blackouts lasting days in some cases.
“So they don’t say things out in the open, that maybe they should,” Rolling said. The 2019 blackouts in California, the deadly Texas blackouts in the 2021 Winter Storm Uri, and the Christmas 2022 blackouts in the Southeast, Rolling said, should have been a wakeup call for the country that there are growing risks to our electricity grid. So far, they haven’t deterred the net-zero by 2050 advocates from their agenda. Source: justhenews.com
Epa, governors need to ignore them and kick them.out of the state or arrest anyone who tries to interfere with the infrastructure. Epa rules aren't law.
Thats the thing, fuck the EPA.
Destruction by design.
What does the supreme court have to do with anything?? Warn the governors, mayors, consumers and law enforcement. They should be fighting this tooth and nail. And Junky has a good point, they're "rules", not laws. Grow some balls and quit complying with everything these lunatics come up with.
This is just Chevron decision backlash from those whose oxen are now gored
EPA. A true contradiction of terms and another worthless 3 letter agency that needs to be gutted.
OK, a hurricane, port shutdown, and now massive electric shutdown?
WATCH on AP: 2 weeks ago @SecBlinken announced $325 million to repair Ukraine’s energy and electric grid.
American cities destroyed by the hurricane are now facing shortages of these parts. https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1841105116771848437