Moody’s finds renewables pose low stranded asset risk for US utilities

摘要

The rapid growth of renewable generation in the U.S. is unlikely to prompt newer regulation-based existing coal-fired and natural gas plants to become stranded assets, Moody’s Investors Service said in a recent note. Regulators have a strong track record dating back to the 1990s of allowing utilities to recover the costs of potentially stranded assets from customers so long as those projects were initially allowed to be included in the utility’s rate base, Moody’s said in a Nov. 5 note titled “Renewable generation transition unlikely to create significant stranded asset risk.”