NERC Sees 'Most States' Moving To Mass-Based Compliance Under ESPS

摘要

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the nation's grid reliability overseer, says it expects "most states" to pursue mass-based greenhouse gas (GHG) limits for complying with EPA's GHG rule for existing power plants rather than the more-complicated rate-based limits the agency initially proposed, an approach NERC says is easier to implement and is more familiar to utilities that have used it previously without raising reliability concerns. "To comply with the proposed Clean Power Plan, states are expected to select the mass-based limitation approach over the emission rate approach due to its greater flexibility and ease to enforce and implement," the group said in its just-released "2014 Long-Term Reliability Assessment." The assessment is available on InsideEPA. com. See page 2 for details.