Critics have charged that the EPA’s carbon standards for new power plants, released last Friday, will reduce electric system reliability.
New coal-fired units would need to meet a limit of 1,100 pounds of CO2 per megawatt-hour under the rules introduced Friday. New large gas-fired power plants would be limited to 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per MWh and new small gas-fired turbines to 1,100 pounds of per MWh.
Read more at Energy Manager Today.
