{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/fedorchak-statement-department-energy-grid-reliability-report", "Fedorchak statement on Department of Energy grid reliability report", "2025-07-08", "2025", "2025-07", "Republican", "House", "ND", "Julie Fedorchak", "F000482", "fedorchak.house.gov", "fedorchak", "https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) issued the following statement after the Department of Energy released a new report warning of significant reliability risks to the nation\u2019s electric grid. The report estimates that annual outage hours could rise from single digits today to over 800 hours per year and blackouts could surge 100 percent by 2030:\n\n\u201cThe Department of Energy\u2019s report is extremely troubling, but not surprising. It confirms what grid operators have been saying for years: America is retiring too much dispatchable, baseload generation plants that can ramp up or down to meet demand\u2014without having adequate replacements that can do the same job.\n\n\u201cThe most obvious, commonsense solution is to stop taking reliable generators offline before we have adequate replacements. That\u2019s why I introduced the Baseload Reliability Protection Act to prohibit the premature retirement of critical, dispatchable baseload generators in areas already at risk of blackouts, and to give DOE, FERC, and grid operators the tools they need to preserve our grid.\n\n\u201cI commend the Trump administration for its focus on grid security and look forward to continue working together to achieve American energy dominance.\u201d\n\nCLICK HERE to learn more about the Baseload Reliability Protection Act.\n\nCLICK HERE to read the full Department of Energy report.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T14:40:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/fedorchak-statement-department-energy-grid-reliability-report"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 3.834076691418886, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}