Exclusive — Dave Walsh: Electrical Grid Operators Are ‘Sounding Alarm’ over EPA Rules
Electrical grid operators have been “sounding alarm bells” that they will not be able to “meet the demand” of the amount of electricity needed under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent regulations, Dave Walsh, former President and CEO of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc. (MHPSA) said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
The EPA released four final rules Thursday that would help to reduce the amount of pollution being produced from “fossil fuel-fired power plants.”
The EPA’s final regulations for coal-fired and natural gas-fired power plants “limit the amount of carbon pollution covered sources can emit.”
“We’ve got the regional grid coordinators across the grids, PJM 13 states, MISO 15 states, CAISO, which is California, ERCOT, which is Texas, and now added North Carolina and Tennessee, 32 states now impacted by grid operators telling us that they’re running out of electricity,” Walsh said, adding that we are not “generating enough baseload constant duty electricity to support demand.”
States such as California are already faced with importing electricity and typically import roughly “between one-fifth and one-third of its electricity supply,” according to the U.S. Energy and Information Administration.
“California imports 34 percent of its electricity to begin with before now running into southern California problems,” Walsh said.