Brett Guthrie: “This bill drives a massive build-out of unreliable wind and solar power, not nuclear, not natural gas, and not baseload…”

“This bill drives a massive build-out of unreliable wind and solar power, not nuclear, not natural gas, and not baseload power. I include in the Record a report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, the authority on electric reliability, which underscores the risk of blackouts from the oversupply of weather- dependent energy. [From North American Electric Reliability Corporation, May 2022] 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment Key Findings NERC's annual SRA covers the upcoming four-month (June- September) summer period. This assessment provides an evaluation of generation resource and transmission system adequacy and energy sufficiency to meet projected summer peak demands and operating reserves This assessment identifies potential reliability issues of interest and regional topics of concern. While the scope of this seasonal assessment is focused on the upcoming summer, the key findings are consistent with risks and issues that NERC has highlighted in the 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment and other earlier reliability assessments and reports. The following findings are NERC and the ERO Enterprise's independent evaluation of electricity generation and transmission capacity and potential operational concerns that may need to be addressed for the 2022 summer.…”