John Siciliano & Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner
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GREEN NEW DEAL NOT A PRIORITY AS STATE REGULATORS DESCEND ON WASHINGTON: State energy regulators descend on Washington this week for a major winter policy conference, and to take up policy resolutions that set their lobbying agenda for 2019.
Not one of the new resolutions slated to be voted on by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ board has anything to do with the progressive Green New Deal agenda, or climate change. At least not directly.
The national association, the lead trade group representing utility regulators from all states and territories, is focused instead on the nitty-gritty of making the grid work more efficiently, which in turn will make it cleaner.
One of the resolutions up for consideration by the group’s board this week is from the Nevada utility commission and would make it easier for distributed energy resources, which can include both renewables and fossil resources, to be included in states’ energy mix.|
Using energy more efficiently: The resolution specifically looks to promote a type of highly-efficient energy used by manufacturers and steelworks that recycles the waste gases and heat from industrial processes to generate electricity for both the plants and the grid.
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