Electric Reliability Study Sees Darkening Picture Ahead
The power industry needs a longer-term approach to grid planning and adding resources or it faces serious reliability consequences, the North American Electric Reliability Council warns in a 10-year forecast.
"There's a sense of urgency here," says Richard Sergel, president and CEO of NERC, a non-profit industry group working to improve bulk power system reliability in North America. Sergel's comments came in an interview with Platts, an energy market-tracking service that, like ENR, is a unit of the McGraw-Hill Cos.