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DOE defends 202(c) actions, supports transmission and nuclear acceleration at Senate hearing
Summary
Secretary Wright told senators the department has used emergency 202(c) authority to keep baseload plants online, reopened LNG export permit reviews, and supports transmission projects and small modular reactors; senators asked DOE to provide project modeling and to complete reviews of GRIP awards.
Secretary Wright told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the Department of Energy has taken several operational steps to bolster grid reliability and speed certain energy projects.
Wright said DOE issued multiple 202(c) orders to keep baseload generation online during periods of system stress; the secretary described one such intervention in Southwestern Michigan, where DOE issued a 202(c) order "to keep a coal plant . . . open because of small reserve margins in MISO." He said the decision helped prevent a blackout two days later and that DOE is returning to its precedent for…
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