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The environmental rules cannot unduly compromised their reliability. No matter how great the environmental cost . There is a balance that needs to be struck. How do you strike that balance if you dont know whether Climate Change is happening and whether human activity plays a huge role whether the consequences of doing nothing could be dire and expensive which i assume expensive is a word they would fit into that calculus. We look at what the impact on our ratepayers would be in the benefits to the environment under the proposed rule. But the impact on your ratepayers could be felt through Climate Change as well as through the rates that they pay could they not . And thats not part of what you looked at them part of your analysis . The benefits have been put forth by the epa in their plan and we are weighing the costs against the benefits that the epa has proposed. For what i ....
Your organizations have contracts with ongoing electrical power . Those costs you dont know how those will be handled . At this point the epa has not conveyed how they would address that particular comment. The conversations we have had with epa have been primarily to get clarification on some of the corrections we pointed out within the proposal itself. Bpa claims of the rules give states flexibility to create their own plans but it appears that overlooks the fact that electricity transmission does not stop at the state borders. Many states including south dakota plant rely on neighboring states to ensure the reliability of the grid. Epas modeling suggest under the 111 d. Proposal wyoming could cut his generation by 7. 5 million megawatts or a million megawatt hours. How will wyoming continue to how will you continue to power the regional economy with cuts like this and is that an accurate statement . As far as how we would continue if we are looking at closing down existing power pla ....