E. Leon Jacobs, Jr. is familiar with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). When Jacobs was Chair of the Florida Public Service Commission (FPSC) he served on the Board of Directors of NARUC, chaired NARUC’s Consumer Affairs Committee, and chaired NARUC’s Y2K Ad-Hoc Task Force. So when NARUC came out with a statement about FERC Order 1920 that did not paint a rosy picture, Jacobs, now president of SACE’s Board of Directors, decided to weigh in. He sent NARUC Chair Julie Fedorchak a letter to express support for Order 1920 “because of the positive impact it can have on Florida and the rest of the Southeast.”
NARUC statement of disappointment on FERC Order 1920.
FERC Order 1920 institutes key guidelines for how regions like the Southeast should be evaluating transmission solutions to reduce costs and improve reliability as the electricity sector transitions to clean energy resources.
At a time where all areas of the country are faced with rising costs, shifting generation resources, erosions of the reliability of traditional generating fleets, and increased extreme weather, it is of the utmost importance that state Commissions and FERC focus on avenues to reduce costs and improve reliability. Strategic transmission projects, at the regional level, where the benefits are obvious, will be key at this time. ~ E. Leon Jacobs, Jr. in a letter to NARUC on May 28, 2024
Regional entities engaged in transmission planning include the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council (FRCC), the Southeastern Regional Transmission Planning (SERTP) process, and the South Carolina Regional Transmission Planning (SCRTP) process. Over the course of the next year or so, these entities and the utilities that run them will update planning processes and file an updated process with FERC.
FERC Order 1920 presents an opportunity for Commissions to take a closer look at the potential for regional transmission projects to lower costs and improve reliability for customers in their states. The Order, and the revised transmission planning process we expect to come after it, adds another tool to the utility’s resource planning toolbox. I write because I am optimistic for the positive impact FERC Order 1920 and its implementation can have on electric utility customers across the Southeast as we face increasingly uncertain times. ~ E. Leon Jacobs, Jr. in a letter to NARUC on May 28, 2024
We commend SACE Board President Leon Jacobs for weighing in to highlight that FERC Order 1920 can be incredibly beneficial to the Southeast. SACE will continue to work toward responsible grid planning to improve the reliability and affordability of the grid as we transition to clean energy.
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Former Commissioner: FERC’s Transmission Rule will Benefit the Southeast
I’m not sure it’s as simple as this, insofar as Bush 41 and 43 weren’t criminal sociopaths.
I happened to be driving through Manhattan on the very day that Colin Powell was addressing the United Nations just a few miles away and claimed, and I think honestly, that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction,” and must be stopped by a U.S. military invasion.
Contrast that against what we’re doing in Iran. Fifteen years ago, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), included Iran, the P5+1 nations (the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany), alongside the European Union made an agreement in which most of the developed world agreed that Iran must not have a nuclear weapon.
That stood firmly in place until Trump’s latest war crime, which is costing lives and choking the world economy, solely to defend our president’s neuroses.
The Brennan Center at NYU’s seminal report on this issue, The Truth About Voter Fraud, found that most reported incidents of voter fraud are actually traceable to other sources, such as clerical errors or bad data matching practices. The report reviewed elections that had been meticulously studied for voter fraud and found incident rates between 0.0003 percent and 0.0025 percent.
Does that stop liars like Mike Lee from spreading disinformation of the subject? Of course not.
There is no judgement day. There is no Saint Peter standing in front of the Pearly Gates discerning good from evil and acting according.
That’s a lucky break for Mike Lee.
For most of our lives, many of us boomers have believed that the biggest threat to the United States was our president, starting with Tricky Dick Nixon, the inventor of the “trickle-down economics,” liar Ronald Reagan, and GW (the moron) Bush.
But yes, none of us was prepared for the cold, calculating criminal who is Donald Trump.
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