Clean Power Plan Points Utilities Toward 'Inevitable' Low-Carbon Future, EPA Says

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Alow-carbon future is "inevitable," and the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan is intended to send utilities the market signals necessary to guide those investments, Administrator Gina McCarthy said. "A low carbon future is absolutely inevitable. The question is how quickly will that come out and who will win," McCarthy said April 28 at Columbia University's Global Energy Summit in New York. McCarthy said the EPA's proposed rule follows investments utilities have already made in new natural gas-fired and renewable electricity generating capacity. The proposed Clean Power Plan would provide additional market certainty for utilities as they continue to pursue those investments. "America is already bullish on clean energy and the low carbon economy," McCarthy said. "That is my argument. That is what money and investments are telling me. EPA simply wants to send the right signal so they can feel sure when they double down it will be profitable to them."