Chatterjee rekindles grid resilience debate with call for state, grid operator engagement

摘要

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission action on grid resilience couldbe forthcoming, Chairman Neil Chatterjee suggested Wednesday.After nixing a contentious proposal (RM18-1) from the Departmentof Energy to institute new market rules providing for full-cost recoveryand a return on investment for generators with 90-day on-site fuelsupplies, FERC in January 2018 launched a holistic review (AD18-7) ofthe resilience of the bulk power system. The agency said the results ofthat review would determine whether commission action on gridresilience was warranted.The comment window for that proceeding closed over a yearago, and the commission had mostly been mum on what, if any,next steps would follow. This led some to wonder whether the issuehad been usurped by other concerns and was essentially dead atFERC, especially in light of several federal efforts to curbretirements of coal and nuclear units in the name of resilience andnational security that were met with much resistance and foundlittle success.