Utilities, RTOs seek more time to comply with EPA rules, ensure reliability
Washington (Platts)
Regional transmission organizations joined electric utilities Wednesday in saying more time is needed to comply with US environmental regulations and to ensure grid reliability is maintained as utilities retrofit or retire coal-fired generation.
“Timing and uncertainty remain the most significant concerns” when it comes to how generation owners will comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s mercury, air toxics and water cooling rules and in how regional grid operators will ensure reliability, Mark Lauby, North American Electric Reliability Corporation vice…