Daily Energy Insider: Bipartisan U.S. senators air EPA power plant rule concerns amid reliability risks

“Even though we all appreciate and want to be good stewards of the environment, the EPA rules that recently came out further complicates a tenuous situation on our grid,” Karen Onaran, President and CEO of the Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON), said in her testimony.

ELCON represents some of the largest industrial consumers of electricity, and supports the bicameral bill Expediting Generator Interconnection Procedures Act of 2024, H.R. 8085 and S. 4190, through which Congress would instruct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to make more aggressive reforms to ease interconnection backlogs.