Supply-Side Destruction
Environmental policies established by Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are moving us toward electrical grid failure.
The capacity reserve margin for hot or cold weather events is shrinking in many regions.
According to Philip Moeller, Commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, “the experience of this past winter indicates that the power grid is now already at the limit.” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policies, such as the Mercury and Air Toxics rule and the Section 316 Cooling Water Rule, are forcing the closure of many coal-fired plants, which provided 39 percent of U.S. electricity last year.
American Electric Power, a provider of about ten percent of the electricity to eastern states, will close almost one-quarter of the firm’s coal-fired generating plants in the next fourteen months.
Eighty-nine percent of the power scheduled for closure was needed to meet electricity demand in January. Not all of this capacity has replacement plans
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