WASHINGTON, D.C. – National Mining Association (NMA) president and CEO Rich Nolan issued the following statement on the release of the North American Electric Reliability Corp.’s (NERC) 2024 Long-term Reliability Assessment.
“NERC couldn’t be clearer that the grid reliability math isn’t adding up and that an increasingly dangerous situation will be untenable without a sharp change in policy. Surging electricity demand is colliding with an unworkable regulatory agenda that is producing self-imposed scarcity, undermining affordability and reliability. There should be no confusion: the nation’s rapidly deteriorating grid reliability and surging power prices are the direct result of policy failure.
The incoming Trump administration has an urgent opportunity to respond to the pleas of the nation’s reliability regulators, grid operators, utilities and the states to pursue a regulatory and energy policy pivot that addresses this unfolding electricity supply crisis. Fundamentally, we cannot short-change the bridge to our energy future, and that requires recognizing the ongoing critical importance of the fuel-secure, dispatchable power provided by the nation’s coal fleet.”
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