Regional electricity providers tasked with keeping America’s lights on warned Tuesday that the Biden administration must delay the retirement of fossil fuel power plants to give renewables time to catch up — or else risk major energy shortfalls.
They said grid reliability would be jeopardized by quickly transitioning electricity use from coal and natural gas to green alternatives such as wind and solar.
, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Southwest Power Pool, a regional transmission organization serving 14 states across the central U.S. from South Dakota to Louisiana. Tri-State provides electricity to 42 utilities across the rural West that serve 1 million consumers in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.
The transmission organizations feared goals from some Democratic-led states and the Biden administration to achieve a net-zero power sector in the coming decade were ill-advised and unrealistic. Mr. Biden has set a federal target date of 2035 to reach 100% clean electricity. Rhode Island, New Jersey and the District of Columbia want to achieve net zero by 2035.
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