EPA’s analysis and formulae for its Clean Power Plan is biased toward new wind and solar power that can cause reliability problems because the wind and sun are not available 24/7
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Ignores New Nuclear as a Compliance Option
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA’s Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA’s proposed rule despite nuclear power’s zero carbon dioxide emissions. EIA found that if new nuclear power generation were treated in the same manner as new renewable generation in EPA’s compliance calculations, more nuclear generation would result and electricity prices would be the same or less than with EPA’s preferential treatment of renewable power.
