WRITTEN BY WILLIAM S. SCHERMAN ON MAY 19, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Running On Empty: Biden’s New Power Plant Rules Will Wreck The Nation’s Grid
coal plantImagine flipping a light switch and not knowing if the lights will come on. Normally unthinkable. But the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed power-plant rules would destabilize the energy grid, resulting in less-reliable electric service.
The EPA’s aggressive standards require all coal-fired power plants to use a new and still-tricky technology called carbon capture and storage, or CCS, to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 90% by 2035, or begin co-firing with natural gas. [emphasis, links added]
In addition, natural-gas-fired plants must capture 90% of emissions by 2035 using CCS or switch almost entirely to hydrogen by 2038. The only other option for both: shut down.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/running-on-empty-bidens-new-power-plant-rules-will-wreck-the-nations-grid/
