A reliable electrical grid is essential to all aspects of daily life. Power keeps the lights on, appliances running, and keeps home temperatures well regulated. Americans have rightfully come to expect reliable electricity and the grid has made this possible.
Yet some legislators are valuing other goals above maintaining reliability. Predictably, reliability has begun to suffer.
Legislators at all levels of government should respect certain principles for electrical grid soundness. In so doing, they will be helping to ensure the long-term efficacy of all parts of the electrical grid.
CEI’s Paige Lambermont in a new report identified nine principles that legislators should respect. Some of these key principles include:
Reliability should be the primary concern of electricity policy, with cost as the second consideration for lawmakers.
Policymakers should reject energy subsidies and not pick energy “winners and losers.”
The movement of necessary natural gas fuel should not be impeded by government regulations.
Baseload power should not be taken off the grid in the name of “reducing emissions.
Transmission investments should not be used to cover for flawed policies that hurt reliability.
Excellent podcast. Regrettably the push to decarbonize is outpacing resilience. Resilience has to come first but the cart is definitely in front of the horse.
Snd there’s more, this time from CEI
A reliable electrical grid is essential to all aspects of daily life. Power keeps the lights on, appliances running, and keeps home temperatures well regulated. Americans have rightfully come to expect reliable electricity and the grid has made this possible.
Yet some legislators are valuing other goals above maintaining reliability. Predictably, reliability has begun to suffer.
Legislators at all levels of government should respect certain principles for electrical grid soundness. In so doing, they will be helping to ensure the long-term efficacy of all parts of the electrical grid.
CEI’s Paige Lambermont in a new report identified nine principles that legislators should respect. Some of these key principles include:
Reliability should be the primary concern of electricity policy, with cost as the second consideration for lawmakers.
Policymakers should reject energy subsidies and not pick energy “winners and losers.”
The movement of necessary natural gas fuel should not be impeded by government regulations.
Baseload power should not be taken off the grid in the name of “reducing emissions.
Transmission investments should not be used to cover for flawed policies that hurt reliability.
Here’s another way of looking at the same problem… with a comment from Roger Pielke Sr no less
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebreakthroughjournal/p/the-ipcc-is-the-trust-we-need-to?r=8qay0&utm_medium=ios
Excellent podcast. Regrettably the push to decarbonize is outpacing resilience. Resilience has to come first but the cart is definitely in front of the horse.