1 / 3

Seth Kaplan Senior Attorney & Director Clean Energy and Climate Change Project

Oil, Gas & Clean Air: A Lack of Energy Policy Meets A Desire to Confront a Problem in Advance Electricity Restructuring Roundtable – December 9, 2005. Seth Kaplan Senior Attorney & Director Clean Energy and Climate Change Project Conservation Law Foundation. The Facts.

dora-nunez
Download Presentation

Seth Kaplan Senior Attorney & Director Clean Energy and Climate Change Project

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Oil, Gas & Clean Air:A Lack of Energy Policy Meets A Desire to Confront a Problem in Advance Electricity Restructuring Roundtable – December 9, 2005 Seth Kaplan Senior Attorney & Director Clean Energy and Climate Change Project Conservation Law Foundation

  2. The Facts • Real changes in regional patterns of electricity use (winter spike) & gas use (increased gas-fired electric generation) • Very few plants actually have dual fuel capability • (ex. MASSPOWER allowed to burn 15,000 gallons of oil per year, but burned only 226 in 2004 and 4,524 in 2003) • DEP has dealt with these kind of situations through emergency powers

  3. Differences in opinion .. . • The response to these pressures should come through other efforts • In the short term through efficiency, DSM, etc… • In the long term through even more of this and clean generation • The positive relationship between cold & wind in New England – See DOE “Cold Snap” Report • Far better to plan for emergency than react on the fly BUT fuel switching is dangerous way to go • Oil supply issues as well air emissions questions

More Related