The North Dakota Transmission Authority (NDTA) included AOER’s analysisas an exhibit for North Dakota’s participation along with 24 other states’ motion to stay the Environmental Protection Agency’s new carbon regulations.
AOER’s Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling opined about their study and the new regulations on their Energy Bad Boys Substack post: “5.2 Million Americans Will Be Left in the Dark by EPA’s Carbon Rules on Power Plants.”
They write that the new rules are “worse than you can possibly imagine. This is especially true in the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), where EPA regulations would leave five million people shivering in the dark”… because the “EPA doesn’t conduct hourly reliability analyses, it has no idea when wind and solar resources are available on the system to serve demand. As a result, the EPA simply assumes that wind and solar generation will magically match perfectly with demand.”