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Federal Power Act amendments focus on grid reliability
Fedorchak
North Dakota’s sole member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Republican freshman Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak, has introduced the Baseload Reliability Protection Act.
The bill aims to “amend the Federal Power Act to prohibit retirements of baseload electric generating units in any area that is served by a Regional Transmission Organization or an Independent System Operator and that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation [NERC] categorizes as at elevated risk or high risk of electricity supply shortfalls, and for other purposes.”
A summary of the legislation is available on Fedorchak’s House website.
Amendments: The Baseload Reliability Protection Act would amend the Federal Power Act in the following ways:
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Wednesday, June 16, 2021|4:30–6:15PM EDT
Session Chair:
Michael A. Fendler
Alternate Chair:
Theresa E. Cutler
Session Organizer:
Vladimir Sobes
Staff Producer:
Erica McGowan (ANS)
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Discovery of AMPX Thermal Scattering Law Processing Issue for Solid Moderators
Alex Lang (ORNL), Alex Shaw (ORNL), Chris Chapman (ORNL), William Marshall (ORNL)
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Reducing Direct Perturbation Uncertainty for High-Sensitivity Coefficients
T. M. Greene (ORNL), W. J. Marshall (ORNL), J. B. Clarity (ORNL)
Sensitivity Calculations for Systems with Polyethylene Reflector Materials Using CLUTCH
William Marshall (ORNL), Alex Lang (ORNL)
Uniformly Ordered Binary Decision Algorithm for Benchmark Experiment Correlations in Whisper Validation
Brian C. Kiedrowski (Univ. of Michigan)
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