WASHINGTON, D.C. – A diverse group of 12 energy industry associations representing oil, natural gas, wind, solar, efficiency, and other energy technologies today submitted comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in response to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rulemaking on grid resiliency pricing. In joint comments, this broad group of energy industry associations urged FERC not to adopt DOE’s proposed rule to provide out-of-market financial support to uneconomic coal and nuclear power plants in the wholesale electricity markets overseen by FERC.
Specifically, the energy industry associations’ comments state that:
The follow energy industry associations submitted the comments jointly:
Several other groups and individual energy companies signed the joint comments as well.
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LEARN MORE ABOUT THE INDUSTRY GROUPS:
Advanced Energy Economy at www.aee.net
American Biogas Council at www.americanbiogascouncil.org
American Council on Renewable Energy at www.acore.org
American Petroleum Institute at www.api.org
American Wind Energy Association at www.awea.org/DOEresiliencyrule
Electric Power Supply Association at https://epsa.org
Electricity Consumers Resource Council at https://elcon.org
Energy Storage Association at http://energystorage.org/
Independent Petroleum Association of America at www.ipaa.org
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America at www.ingaa.org
Natural Gas Supply Association at www.ngsa.org
Solar Energy Industries Association at www.seia.org
MEDIA CONTACTS:
AEE, Monique Hanis, mhanis@aee.net, 202-391-0884
ACORE, Gil Jenkins, jenkins@acore.org 202-777-7584
API, Michael, Tadeo, tadeom@api.org, 202-682-8540
AWEA, Peter Kelley, pkelley@awea.org, 202-270-8831
EPSA, John Shelk, jshelk@epsa.org, (202) 628-8200
IPAA, Neal Kirby, nkirby@ipaa.org (202) 857-4722
INGAA, Cathy Landry, clandry@ingaa.org 202-216-5913
NGSA, Daphne Magnuson, daphne.magnuson@ngsa.org, 202-326-9314
SEIA, Alexandra Hobson, ahobson@seia.org, 202-556-2886