{"id":353675,"date":"2024-12-09T18:58:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=353675"},"modified":"2024-12-09T18:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:58:26","slug":"green-energy-companies-eco-activists-cry-foul-following-grid-operators-bid-to-improve-energy-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=353675","title":{"rendered":"Green Energy Companies, Eco Activists Cry Foul Following Grid Operator\u2019s Bid to Improve Energy Reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A group of renewable energy developers and environmental activists are pushing the largest U.S. grid operator to abandon its proposal to prevent energy shortfalls, according to a letter released Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of millions of Americans are at risk of experiencing<\/a> power shortages this winter as data centers<\/a> have helped drive a surge in electricity demand, with grid unreliability causing grid operator PJM to propose a fast-tracked process for 50 additional power plants to connect to the system. Now, a group of unnamed green energy producers are pushing the grid operator to abandon the effort, issuing a letter<\/a> to PJM and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that suggests there isn\u2019t a clear \u201cemergency and reliability imperative\u201d for boosting reliability and that the initiative wouldn\u2019t hold up in court. (RELATED: Texas Is Booming On A Brittle Power Grid, Posing \u2018Disastrous\u2019 Risks For All Of America)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proposal is a blatant attempt to perpetrate undue discrimination and preference,\u201d the letter states. \u201cPJM management has acted as if there is an emergency and reliability imperative, but PJM has never defined \u2018the need\u2019 it must address.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like New England, the PJM grid from IL to NJ is generating very little electricity from wind and has had to resort to burning oil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In both places it\u2019s the same reason: pro-scarcity climate activists have created a scarcity of reliable energy supplies pic.twitter.com\/WIZdCZWwA7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) December 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The initiative, entitled the \u201cReliability Resource Initiative (RRI): Interim Accelerated Interconnection Process,\u201d would allow up to 50 new generation projects to be connected to the grid alongside a slew of previously approved power facilities, according<\/a> to the most recent version of the PJM proposal. The queue of already approved projects are made up almost entirely of green energy sources, which PJM notes are \u201cintermittent and limited-duration resources,\u201d and thus multiple megawatts of renewable power is needed to replace one megawatt of fossil fuel power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to the slew of renewable energy companies, environmental activist groups have also come out in opposition to the RRI, with attorneys for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, PennFuture and Earthjustice telling E&E News, \u201cRRI is unjust and unreasonable as it retroactively changes the terms for projects that have been waiting years in the interconnection queue, and is unduly discriminatory against certain technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American energy demand could exceed<\/a> supply before the end of the decade, with an October report from consultancy Bain finding utilities may need to increase their annual power generation by as much as 26% by 2028. A study from grid watchdog the North American Electric Reliability Corporation found the shortfall was largely driven<\/a> by Democratic green energy mandates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PJM did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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