SEC. 2. REGULATIONS RELATING TO ELECTRIC ENERGY 
GENERATION. 
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that— 
(1) the Administrator should be barred from 
imposing new regulations that may hasten the re-
tirement of reliable power generation until the 
United States electric grid can reliably meet elec-
tricity demand without today’s frequent shortages in 
supply and in capacity safety margins; 
(2) NERC has already identified the threats of 
‘‘insufficient dispatchable resources’’ and ‘‘low ca-
pacity reserves’’ across the United States as demand 
increases from electrification and EV adoption and 
reliable capacity is declining in favor of unreliable 
solar and wind capacity; 
(3) the major regional United States power grid 
operators have put the Administrator on notice that 
current energy and environmental policies ‘‘could 
well exacerbate the disturbing trend and growing 
risk wherein the pace of retirements of generation 
with attributes needed to ensure grid reliability is 
rapidly exceeding the commercialization of new re-
sources capable of providing those reliability at-
tributes’’; 
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(4) the Administrator is the primary cause of 
increasing electricity shortages challenges to reliable 
power grid operations by forcing the premature re-
tirement of reliable power generation capacity, pri-
marily from coal and natural gas, via regulations 
such as the proposed— 
(A) ‘‘New Source Performance Standards 
for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, 
Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired 
Electric Generating Units; Emission Guidelines 
for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing 
Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units; 
and Repeal of the Affordable Clean Energy 
Rule’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 33240 (May 23, 2023)); 
(B) ‘‘National Emission Standards for 
Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired 
Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Review 
of the Residual Risk and Technology Review’’ 
(89 Fed. Reg. 38508 (May 7, 2024)); and 
(C) ‘‘Supplemental Effluent Limitations 
Guidelines and Standards for the Steam Elec-
tric Power Generating Point Source Category’’ 
(89 Fed. Reg. 40198 (May 9, 2024)); 
(5) the public statement by the Administrator 
that in its ‘‘40-year history, the Clean Air Act has 
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not impacted power companies’ ability to keep the 
lights on in communities across the United States’’ 
is clearly false as reliable capacity is being retired 
due to regulatory actions that have led to major ca-
pacity inadequacies in Texas, California, and other 
areas across the United States and regulations con-
tinue to be a threat to the United States grid reli-
ability; 
(6) jeopardizing electric grid reliability via regu-
lations that have the potential to prematurely retire 
reliable power generation capacity immediately en-
dangers the health, human environment, and lives of 
everyone in the United States, which runs counter to 
the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency 
to ‘‘protect human health and the environment’’; 
(7) the Administrator’s desire to rapidly retire 
more reliable natural gas and coal power generation 
capacity in favor of unreliable solar and wind will ex-
acerbate the resource inadequacy beyond current 
alarming projections; 
(8) the Administrator’s desire to electrify many 
energy uses from cooking and heating to transpor-
tation across the United States will exacerbate the 
threat of capacity inadequacy and thereby reduce 
power grid reliability during peak demand periods; 
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(9) the Administrator should, in coordination 
with utilities and power generators, identify the elec-
tric power generation in danger of retiring pre-
maturely from existing regulations and provide waiv-
ers where possible to support reliable electricity sup-
ply by preventing premature shutdowns of power 
generators due to these regulations, especially given 
the warnings from the Commissioner Christie of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that the 
United States is ‘‘heading for a reliability crisis’’; 
(10) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-
sion should coordinate with NERC to develop new 
grid reliability standards for the United States that 
acknowledge unreliable solar and wind power genera-
tors can perform near-zero of their capacity during 
peak demand and under extreme weather conditions, 
which has been a major source of misplanning by re-
gional grid operators who assumed a higher level of 
power generation from solar and wind; and 
(11) the Administrator should halt the imple-
mentation of regulations and rules currently in de-
velopment and refrain from proposing new rules re-
lated to the electric power sector until the Adminis-
trator can— 
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(A) provide sufficient evidence that these 
regulations and rules do not lead to further pre-
mature retirements of reliable electric gener-
ating units; and 
(B) provide sufficient evidence that the 
United States electric grid can reliably meet 
electricity demand without frequent shortages 
in supply and in capacity safety margins. 
(b) REGULATIONS RELATING TO ELECTRIC GENER-
ATING UNITS.—The Administrator may not enforce a rule 
or regulation restricting the continuous, previously-per-
mitted operation of any electric generating unit that pro-
vides dispatchable capacity unless and until all areas 
served by the bulk-power system are assessed to be ‘‘Nor-
mal Risk’’ by NERC pursuant to the risk report. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’ means the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency. 
(2) BULK-POWER
SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘bulk- 
power system’’ has the meaning given such term in 
section 215(a)(1) of the Federal Power Act (16 
U.S.C. 824o(a)(1)). 
(3) NERC.—The term ‘‘NERC’’ means the 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation. 
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