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NERC Releases Guidance for States on Clean Power Plan Reliability Concerns

The Clean Power Plan requires states to demonstrate that they considered electric reliability issues in developing their State Implementation Plans (SIP).  At the end of January 2016, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) released an assessment of reliability trends, … Continue reading

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Regional CPP Analysis: Feedback from PJM States

In September, PJM asked the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI) for feedback as it considered how to approach modeling and analysis of the final CPP.  PJM stated that it planned to use the same modeling philosophy as was used … Continue reading

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Regional CPP Analysis: ERCOT

On October 16, 2015, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)—the independent system operator (ISO), Planning Authority, Balancing Authority, and Reliability Coordinator for the Texas Interconnection—released ERCOT Analysis of the Impacts of the Clean Power Plan: Final Rule Update. This … Continue reading

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NERC Analyses of the Proposed Clean Power Plan

In the final Clean Power Plan, EPA was critical of North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) analyses of its proposed rule, stating that NERC “assumes considerably less flexibility than actually is provided to states and EGUs” in the final rule … Continue reading

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