Amid Biden’s Renewables Push, Grid Officials Fear Reliability Risks

Amid the incoming Biden administration’s push for a dramatic expansion of renewable energy, electric grid regulators are warning that increased use of wind and solar may cause power outages, offering a potential guide for the new administration on implementing its clean energy policies. “To ensure reliability during the transition to greater reliance on wind and solar resources, emerging resource and energy adequacy issues must be addressed,” says a Dec. 15 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which...