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Grid operator prepped for emergency during Jan. 6 attack
From E&E News:
Compared to other reliability actions that grid operators can take, a conservative operations declaration is relatively modest, said Devin Hartman, director of energy and environmental policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit that supports free markets.
Unlike a conservation alert, which grid operators may issue to reduce power demand during very hot or cold days, conservative operations don’t directly affect consumers by asking them to change their energy consumption.
Still, grid operators ideally try to avoid entering conservative operations because of potential costs that can be added “to the whole system,” said Hartman, who has previously worked at FERC.
