{"id":17856,"date":"2018-05-17T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=17856"},"modified":"2018-05-17T14:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T18:23:54","slug":"firstenergys-dangerous-push-for-an-8b-bailout-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2018\/05\/17\/firstenergys-dangerous-push-for-an-8b-bailout-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"FirstEnergy’s dangerous push for an $8B bailout: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> A mega utility from Ohio is appealing to the Trump administration for an unprecedented $8-billion, ratepayer-funded bailout, even pointing to a 1950s Korean War Act for relief. It\u2019s FirstEnergy\u2019s last-ditch appeal after losing previous efforts to prop up a fleet of failing coal and nuclear plants.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Washington-based lobbyists have the ears of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, an avid coal champion, who could make a decision any day.<\/p>\n

What neither FirstEnergy nor Perry are telling us is that a government handout of this magnitude could have implications for energy markets nationwide \u2013 while saddling Americans\u00a0with a flurry of bailouts that go far beyond $8 billion. For\u00a0no valid reason<\/a>\u00a0at all.<\/p>\n

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A dangerous precedent<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the U.S. Department of Energy grants FirstEnergy\u2019s latest request, which spans 80 plants in a 13-state region managed by the PJM grid operator, expect indebted utilities in other regions to listen up.<\/p>\n

If FirstEnergy gets a bailout, power companies from California to Florida to New Hampshire may ask for similar favors. Illegal government handouts could then ripple through America\u2019s far-flung energy landscape.<\/p>\n

Left holding the bag will be\u00a0ratepayers like you and me. So how did we get here?<\/p>\n

Years of bad business decisions and\u00a0schemes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even before President Trump took office, the utility has been cooking up creative ways to get out from under a string of\u00a0bad corporate decisions [PDF]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As many other energy companies were turning to cheaper natural gas and renewable technology over the past decade, FirstEnergy headed the opposite direction, acquiring a Pennsylvania utility with a fleet of uneconomic coal plants. Mired in debt,\u00a0the company\u2019s\u00a0power generation\u00a0subsidiary\u00a0recently declared bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

Corporations in a competitive market normally don\u2019t ask ratepayers to pay for their mistakes. But FirstEnergy does, time and time again, even as it runs\u00a0into roadblocks.<\/p>\n

FERC: A bailout would disrupt markets<\/strong><\/p>\n

First, the company begged for help from the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, which initially agreed to billions in bailout funds. That plan was, however,\u00a0blocked<\/a>\u00a0by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which said it would illegally disrupt regional competitive markets.<\/p>\n

FirstEnergy then turned to the U.S. Department of Energy, asking Perry to declare more than 80 power plants in Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic states \u201cemergency\u201d units under Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act.<\/p>\n

Used rarely during times of war or natural disasters, the obscure designation would provide guaranteed profits to these coal and nuclear plants, including FirstEnergy\u2019s, to the tune of $8 billion\u00a0a year.<\/p>\n

Regional grid operator: What emergency?<\/strong><\/p>\n

But PJM, the grid operator for FirstEnergy\u2019s territory, rejected the notion that the utility\u2019s troubled plants are needed and that their retirement constitute an emergency.<\/p>\n

So did the pro-fossil fuel group American Petroleum Institute. Electricity markets are working just fine,\u00a0the API said<\/a>, adding that bailing out a flailing energy company that doubled down on coal would be at odds with the government\u2019s goals of \u201cenergy dominance, economic growth and improving America\u2019s infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

FirstEnergy\u2019s next move: 1950\u00a0Korean War Act<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet even before the Section 202(c) play is complete, the coal lobby has floated another desperate possibility.<\/p>\n

FirstEnergy\u2019s latest hope is for President Trump to invoke The\u00a0Defense Production Act of 1950 [PDF]<\/a>. Passed at the start of the Korean War, the act gives the president powers to \u201cinfluence domestic industry in the interest of national defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Using national security as an excuse, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has also\u00a0weighed in [PDF]<\/a>.\u00a0He\u2019s urging the president to use the act to justify billions in government handouts to old and uneconomic coal and nuclear plants unable to compete on their own.<\/p>\n

Note that Manchin wasn\u2019t talking about just FirstEnergy. He wants the president to prevent the retirement of coal and nuclear plants anywhere, with an emphasis on coal. \u201cThis industry,\u201d he wrote, \u201cand the men and women who work in it can no longer do it alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry says he\u2019s \u201clooking very closely,\u201d at a proposal that, in other words, could cost all Americans and send ripples of chaos throughout our competitive power markets. As crazy as it sounds, he may go for it.<\/p>\n

This post originally appeared on our Voices<\/a> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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