All the Biden-Harris administration wants to do is destroy the country.
The Biden-Harris administration says that its stringent power plant rules won’t harm long-term power reliability, but four grid operators stated the exact opposite in a legal brief filed Friday.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its aggressive emissions rules for America’s power plants in April, saying at the time that the regulations would “improve public health without disrupting the delivery of reliable electricity.” However, four major regional grid operators argued the exact opposite in an amicus brief filed in support of red states’ legal challenge against the rule, stating explicitly that the rules will jeopardize Americans’ ability to reliably secure sufficient amounts of power if they are enforced as is.
“Their proffered brief outlines in detail that without additional modification, the compliance timelines and related provisions of the Rule are not workable and are destined to trigger an acceleration in the pace of premature retirements of electric generation units that possess critical reliability attributes at the very time when such generation is needed to support ever-increasing electricity demand because of the growth of the digital economy and the need to ensure adequate back-up generation to support an increasing amount of intermittent renewable generation,” the grid operators wrote in their amicus brief. “Such inevitable and foreseeable premature retirement decisions resulting from the Rule’s timelines will substantially strain each of the Joint [independent system operators’] / [regional transmission organizations’] ability to maintain the reliability of the electric power grid to meet the needs of the citizenry and the country’s economy.”
The Daily Caller points out that the EPA’s regulations will require existing coal plants to capture 90% of their emissions by 2032 if they wish to operate beyond 2039. New natural gas plants will also need to comply with the same emissions reduction in order to remain operational past 2039. The agency is effectively mandating the use of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology for these emissions cuts. However, the four grid operators argue that CCS is too costly and untested to implement within such a short timeframe.
The sinister intent behind these new regulations is to effectively shut down the power grid. If that happens, then hundreds of thousands of people will be without power. Carbon capture and sequestration sounds good in theory and interest in the technology has grown since the passage of the so-called Inflation Reduction Act, the EPA is still slow in issuing permits for constructing CCS facilities. It’s clear the White House obviously hopes to replace fossil fuels using CCS coupled with transitioning to so-called renewable energy sources, both of which are unreliable.
Renewable energy is nothing more than a bonafide Ponzi scheme boosted by taxpayer dollars that is inadequate to provide people’s energy needs. The fact that the EPA is holding up construction permits for CCS infrastructure shows the Biden-Harris administration is only interesting in destroying our power grids as a means to destroy the fossil fuel industry. Here is hoping the grid operators prevail.