by ridgelinecenter | Jan 1, 2024
This report examines the opportunity afforded to the electric sector by two federal acts: the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Under these Acts, utilities could replace aging equipment, adopt advanced...
by ridgelinecenter | Dec 18, 2023
This report summarizes the technological bases for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired electric generating units, issued in May 2023. It then explains in detail how the regulated...
by ridgelinecenter | Dec 18, 2023
This report explores the implementation of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules issued under the Clean Air Act (CAA) over the past several decades, specifically explaining how those rules have provided compliance flexibilities consistent with statutory...
by ridgelinecenter | Nov 9, 2023
This paper considers the implications of weather stressors on resource adequacy in the PJM system assuming the pre-existing capacity expansion plan in the “EPA Policy Case 1” for 2030, 2035, and 2040. It was prepared for the Center for Applied Environmental Law and...
by ridgelinecenter | Nov 1, 2023
EPA’s proposed carbon pollution standards for existing gas power plants would apply only to large plants running at annual capacity factors higher than 50%. Annual averaging of capacity factors provides signficant flexibility to these plants to ramp output to...
