“If the proposed Clean Power Plan remains as is, the bulk electric system will be at serious risk of violating these [voltage limits],” the Southwest Power Pool wrote to the EPA, echoing ERCOT’s concerns. SPP’s grid “will experience numerous thermal overloads and low voltage occurrences.” Many states have also come out against the rule and asked the EPA to revise it or repeal it altogether. “[T]he Proposed Rule would usurp the energy producing states’ authority to ‘establish’ performance standards by dictating what the standards must be,” reads a letter obtained by TheDCNF from high-ranking from 12 states, led by North Dakota’s chief environmental officer at the Department of Health. A coalition of 12 states, led by West Virginia, have sued the EPA over its climate rule, saying the agency has overreached in its authority. “Our system doesn’t allow federal agencies to ‘improve’ or ‘fix’ laws to advance an agenda,” said Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who joined West Virginia in the lawsuit. “But that is what happened here: the EPA made a promise in 2011 to expand its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants.”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:20:53 +0000
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