Energy Secretary Rick Perry will make “the right decision” on whether to declare a power grid emergency to save money-losing coal and nuclear plants, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Kevin McIntyre said Tuesday.
McIntyre, and all other FERC commissioners, before Congress last week dismissed claims by the Trump administration that the reliability of the power grid is facing immediate risk because of planned coal and nuclear plant closures in the next several years.
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