Powerful Living
New executive order calls for review of the Clean Power Plan
P
resident Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan rule. Also known as the “CPP,” the rule was a result of former President Barack Obama’s strategy to
combat climnate change. The CPP, which came with much contro- versy in the electric utility industry, aimed to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from U.S. power plants 32 percent below 2005 levels by year 2030. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), released the following statement regarding President Trump’s order: “Electric co-ops have two key missions—providing electricity and other services to more than 42 million consumers and empowering the communities they serve. The CPP jeopardizes co-ops’ ability to accomplish both. If implemented, the CPP would hit many of our electric cooperatives extremely hard by forcing them to premature- ly shutter existing power plants. Those co-ops would in essence be charged twice for their electricity—once to continue paying down the loans on the closed power plants and again for the cost of pur- chasing replacement power,” said NRECA CEO Jim Matheson. “This announcement is an important step toward protecting our cooperatives and millions of Americans from the costly impacts of the CPP as co-ops continue innovating and moving toward cleaner energy production.” Chris Meyers, general manager for the Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives, says electric cooperatives both in Oklahoma and nationwide continue to advocate for safe, reliable and afford- able electricity. “We believe the CPP was an overreach of EPA’s authority. Electric cooperatives are environmental stewards and show leadership in adding renewables as well as compliance of environmental rules. Yet, our mission is to ensure consumers at the end of the line con- tinue to receive reliable and affordable power,” Meyers said. In October 2015, NRECA and 39 generation and transmission cooperatives petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals to review and reject the CPP. That effort laid the groundwork for a stay by the U.S. Supreme Court on the rule. “The announcement on President Trump’s order is welcome news for electric cooperatives across the nation seeking fl exibility and fairness—but it’s not yet the end of the journey,” Matheson said.
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