Resiliency: The electric grid’s only hope
Mr. VEASEY. In it, she states the characteristics, metrics, benefits, and compensation for essential resilience and reliability services are not yet fully understood. Specifically, she concludes that, ‘‘At this point we could not say that coal and nuclear have unique characteristics that provide such resiliency benefits that they should receive special treatment in the market.’’ This conclusion is also echoed by a thorough analysis released by the conservative R Street Institute on Sunday, which found that this proposal is neither technically nor procedurally sound. R Street summarized it as an arbitrary backdoor subsidy to coal and nuclear plants that risk undermining the electrical competition throughout the United States.
