“With extreme weather events causing more frequent outages, now is the time for Congress to help ensure that the benefits of interconnected regional grids, as well as organized wholesale markets, can be realized in all parts of the country.”
EPSA joined 19 energy and environmental policy organizations in a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to support organized wholesale electricity markets as a means to modernizing, strengthening and decarbonizing America’s electric grid.
The letter notes, “The recent extreme winter weather conditions and its devastating impacts upon the electricity grid and consumers starkly demonstrate the need for increased investment in a diverse set of technologies and infrastructure tools to ensure reliability and protect the public in the future. Under the new reality, electricity customers should be enabled to take a more active role when responding to electricity challenges during extreme weather events and organized wholesale electricity markets give them important options to do so cost-effectively.”
Additional signers of the letter included:
- Advanced Energy Economy (AEE)
- Alliance for Affordable Energy American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA)
- Carolina Utility Customers Association (CUCA)
- Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association (CCEBA)
- Community Energy Labs
- Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA)
- Energy Choice Coalition (ECC)
- Industrial Energy Consumers of America (IECA)
- Interwest Energy Alliance
- National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
- National Retail Federation (NRF)
- R Street Institute
- Renew Missouri
- Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA)
- Renewable Northwest (RNW)
- Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)
- Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA)
- Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
- Western Grid Group (WGG)
