WASHINGTON – Today the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) released a much-awaited report assessing the failures of gas generators throughout the eastern U.S. during Winter Storm Elliott, concluding that Congress and state legislatures need to establish reliability rules for natural gas infrastructure to prevent future disasters.
“This damning assessment from FERC and NERC should be a wake-up call that gas and fossil fuel fail to meet our energy needs when they’re needed most,” said Christy Walsh, senior attorney with the Sustainable FERC Project at the NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council.) “To be clear, the federal agency that regulates gas and sets standards for electric reliability is saying that gas is not reliable enough to be counted on when we need it. We need to invest in and expand the clean energy…