Sustainable FERC

2 weeks ago | nrdc.org | Kit Kennedy |Dana Ammann |Sustainable FERC

Clean energy lowers electricity system costs—and fossil fuel power increases them One of the great strengths of clean power is that its fuel—the sun, the wind—is free and abundant. Zero-marginal cost renewables reduce wholesale power prices. When gas- and coal-powered plants run less often because of greater reliance on clean energy and energy efficiency, wholesale prices—the blended cost of all the plants that are operating—go down because fuel is the largest cost of fossil plants.