Obama's Carbon Plans Could Put Reliable Electricity At Jeopardy

[Webster]

...to borrow the quote, "If you like your electricity, you can keep your electricity..."

(The Lonely Conservative) If you like your reliable electricity you can keep your reliable electricity. Or not. The Wall Street Journal reminds us that President Obama and the EPA’s carbon plan will jeopardize the reliability of electricity that we’re all dependent upon.

The Wall Street Journal: The Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan, a proposed regulation limiting carbon emissions from existing coal-fired plants, threatens to jeopardize the reliability that Americans and businesses have come to depend upon. The EPA proposal calls for states to cut emissions by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. It also imposes aggressive interim targets starting in 2020 that will test states’ ability to meet these standards without disrupting service. For example, 39 states must achieve more than 50% of their final target by 2020.

Reliable power requires decades of careful planning. The appropriate amount and type of round-the-clock generation capacity, transmission and distribution lines must be finely balanced in advance to ensure the lights go on when a switch is flipped anywhere in the U.S. The EPA plan will significantly impair that planning process.

The EPA’s proposal is causing concern among those who provide electricity for a living. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held an event in St. Louis on March 31, the last in a series of conferences on the implications of the plan. The North American Electric Reliability Corp., a nonprofit oversight group, has said the EPA plan could constitute “a significant reliability challenge, given the constrained time period for implementation.”

These concerns are driven in large part by the planned retirement, mostly thanks to the EPA’s carbon plan, of about one-third of America’s coal-fired power plants by 2020.

Obama’s war on coal is really a war on Americans’ way of life.

Thoughts?

 

[DrLeftover]

As with the Health Care Law, the School Lunch Program, and so on, it probably Will Not affect the Obama's lifestyle, at all, Ever.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

His plans have already put electricity in jeopardy by using the EPA to go after power plants on this fake global warming. Pretty soon we can be like a third world nation and rolling blackouts will be the norm.

 

[Webster]

As with the Health Care Law, the School Lunch Program, and so on, it probably Will Not affect the Obama's lifestyle, at all, Ever.

His plans have already put electricity in jeopardy by using the EPA to go after power plants on this fake global warming. Pretty soon we can be like a third world nation and rolling blackouts will be the norm.

Agreed on both... *deadpans* ...I guess laws & regs' are just for us little people, huh?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Agreed on both... *deadpans* ...I guess laws & regs' are just for us little people, huh?

When I visit my wife's country of Ecuador you could always expect at least one or two blackouts a week. People don't even flinch About it.