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Lawmakers press department on resource adequacy, dual-fuel generators and implications of a clean energy standard
Summary
Committee members pressed the Department of Public Service on regional resource adequacy, the possibility of reintroducing oil capability at gas plants, and how a proposed clean energy standard might change utilities' REC obligations and near-term rate pressure.
Committee members questioned whether regional resource-adequacy concerns could prompt investments that expand fossil-fuel capability and how the clean energy standard (CES) might change utility procurement and costs.
"There are natural gas generators now that have dual fuel capability, and they're not using it," said TJ Kaur, explaining that some facilities could operate on oil and that regional discussions consider restoring or extending that capability as a contingency for…
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