The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has recently issued an assessment of reliability considerations it thinks state electricity and environmental regulators should take into account in crafting state plans to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued Clean Power Plan.
Included among NERC’s ten key reliability considerations listed in the Reliability Considerations for Clean Power Plan Development: Reliability safety valve – “States must understand how the Reliability Safety Valve works and its limits, recognizing that it cannot be used as a planning tool to meet CPP requirements.”