[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 470 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 17, 2018

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

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  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.

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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