Late on August 23, the U.S. Department of Energy released its long-anticipated Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability. Coverage in the Washington Post included perspective from AEE's CEO Graham Richard. From the article:
And Graham Richard, chief executive of Advanced Energy Economy, a national business group, said that “this report seriously overstates the challenges associated with new energy resources. It also implies that certain power plants now losing out in the marketplace make an irreplaceable contribution to reliability and resilience, which is not the case.”