Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, the Power Plant Reliability Act is a commonsense step to ensure that the power plant retirements do not undermine the reliability of our electric grid. This legislation requires power plant owners to provide 5 years' advance notice before retiring a facility, giving grid operators, regulators, and States the time that they need to plan for replacements and prevent power shortfalls. Under current law, FERC has limited authority to address reliability problems caused by plant retirements, including the ability, under certain circumstances, to order a plant to remain online. This bill enhances the authority by allowing grid operators and States to formally contest a retirement when it would threaten the reliability. In order to keep the lights on, strengthen our electric system, and help to lower Americans' electricity costs, we have to ensure that we have enough baseload power online. This legislation does just that.”