EPSA
On March 11, 2019, State Rep. Tom Mehaffie introduced House Bill 11, the Keep Powering Pennsylvania Act, which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard. It would needlessly raise consumer electricity bills and stifle competition by essentially guaranteeing market share for certain out of state nuclear plant owners. These same nuclear plant owners aggressively favored competition […]
Read MoreIn January, EPSA and others petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review two lower court cases upholding nuclear subsidy programs based on Zero Emissions Credit (ZEC) payments to uneconomic nuclear units in New York (2nd Circuit) and Illinois (7th Circuit). Both lower court opinions erroneously interpret the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Hughes v. Talen […]
Read MoreNew England has relied on wholesale and retail electric market competition to guide most electric capacity resource development in New England for nearly 20 years. Since that time the region’s fleet of generation capacity resources has evolved to its current mixture where there is now an increased use of low emission natural gas-fired, renewable and […]
Read MoreNew England has relied on wholesale and retail electric market competition to guide most electric capacity resource development in New England for nearly 20 years. Since that time the region’s fleet of generation capacity resources has evolved to its current mixture where there is now an increased use of low emission natural gas-fired, renewable and […]
Read MoreAnalysis of state policy interactions with electricity markets in the context of uneconomic existing resources: A critical assessment of the literature About the Report: In this report, we provide a critical assessment of recent studies on the topic of subsidies for uneconomic nuclear generating resources, and identify a number of problematic assumptions and modeling choices […]
Read MoreResilience—the electric grid’s ability to resist, absorb, and recover from high-impact, low-probability external shocks—is an important, yet wide-ranging and potentially amorphous concept. Many different actions can help the grid defend against, absorb, or recover from high-impact, low-probability shocks. However, some potential actions will do little to address specific threats and have been suggested for what […]
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