USA: FERC Could Direct Grid Operators to Compensate Resources for "Resilience Attributes"

Exclusive: Chatterjee details interim plan to save coal, nuclear plants (Utility Dive)

Language aimed at propping up the coal and nuclear power industries could also benefit other baseload generators such as geothermal energy

Data Source – EIA data.  Note: the Baseload percentage is based on the sum total of Coal, (fuels switching to) Natural Gas, Nuclear, Geothermal, 80% of Hydro and 50% of Petro+Biomass divided by total Power Sector net generation.

The acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is considering regulatory language that would direct regional grid operators to update their market tariffs to keep at-risk coal and nuclear generators online while FERC further considers a cost recovery proposal for baseload generation from the Department of Energy.

FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee told Utility Dive the commission could issue a "show cause" order directing RTOs and ISOs to update their tariffs to keep plants online that provide "necessary resilience attributes," or show why they should not be required to do so. FERC would then issue a longer term rulemaking to address broader issues of resilience and market compensation.

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