President Joe Biden’s green energy agenda may pose a risk to power grid reliability, according to an August report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
NERC’s report outlined five connected threats to overall grid reliability, listing energy policy alongside grid transformation, extreme event resiliency, security risks and infrastructure interdependency. Biden’s sweeping climate agenda has incentivized a rapid shift away from conventional fossil fuels for electricity production, and the agenda has also introduced significant changes in its end uses, such as increasing its use for charging electric vehicles and powering electric appliances, the report suggests.
Energy policy “is further contributing to the grid transformation, which includes the shift away from conventional synchronous central-station generators toward a new mix of resources,”…
