NGSA also supports provisions that grandfather state restructuring plans that effectively achieve retail competition and guarantee retail open access in a timely manner. Open access to fully unbundled transmission and distribution systems, services and rates. A process to minimize the adverse impact of stranded cost recovery on consumers, competing generators, marketers, and service providers. Re-opens or conflicts with the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. On their proposed schedule, these regulatory developments obviate the need for Congress to address in legislation any generation-related environmental issues.
Mandates use of specific fuels, such as renewables, to generate electricity.
Open access should permit companies to site and connect new merchant generating stations to the grid on a purely competitive basis and provide consumers the ability to self-generate without penalty. No Fuel Mandates or Generation Portfolio Standards NGSA is opposed to any mandatory measure prescribing market share for any generation source or category - including renewables. The negative experience of the natural gas industry with government mandates has been extensive. Wellhead price controls led to significant market distortions and gas supply shortages in the I 970s. Based on the incorrect perception that gas reserves were running out, Congress enacted the Power Plant and Industrial Fuel Use Act of 1978, which precluded the use of natural gas in power plant operations.