[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S2222]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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    SENATE RESOLUTION 470--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT 
  ELECTRICITY MARKETS DO NOT APPROPRIATELY VALUE THE RELIABILITY AND 
  RESILIENCE ATTRIBUTES OF BASELOAD POWER GENERATION SERVING THE BULK 
                              POWER SYSTEM

  Mr. MANCHIN submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:

                              S. Res. 470

       Whereas the power generation resource mix of the United 
     States is rapidly changing, presenting ongoing challenges to 
     ensuring that baseload units remain operational and provide 
     enhanced resilience and reliability to the power grid of the 
     United States;
       Whereas many baseload units are not appropriately valued 
     for the resilience and reliability attributes those units 
     provide to the power grid of the United States;
       Whereas accelerated retirements of coal-fired and nuclear 
     baseload power generation resources are among those 
     challenges, including how those resources are needed--
       (1) to provide dependable capacity to serve customers;
       (2) to support essential grid services, such as voltage and 
     frequency support and ramping capability;
       (3) to offer high availability and reliability from 
     significant on-site fuel storage; and
       (4) to support integration of new generation resources; and
       Whereas in Docket Numbers RM18-000-001 and AD18-7-001, and 
     in other proceedings, the Federal Energy Regulatory 
     Commission has compiled extensive evidence documenting the 
     reliability and resilience attributes of all power generation 
     resources: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that the 
     Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should take action to 
     ensure that the electricity markets fully recognize the 
     reliability and resilience benefits of coal-fired and nuclear 
     baseload power generation resources serving the bulk power 
     system.

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