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| https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases/fedorchak-calls-out-blue-states-policies-driving-energy-costs-urges-ferc | Fedorchak calls out blue states for policies driving up energy costs, urges FERC action on reliability risks | 2026-02-03 | 2026 | 2026-02 | Republican | House | ND | Julie Fedorchak | F000482 | fedorchak.house.gov | fedorchak | https://fedorchak.house.gov/media/press-releases | scraper | Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak: First of all, I want to set the record straight for a minute. A lot of blame has been made in this committee on Republican policies driving up energy costs. The other boogeyman for increased energy costs is the big tech companies. This chart (Image 1) shows clearly what's going on. You can't really tell the difference between the grades. But the state in this chart that has the lowest energy costs is my state of North Dakota. That is because we have, in a very principled way for decades, followed simple fundamentals that provide low cost and reliability. Those are your drivers. Cost and need drive the investments in the system. And when you do that over time, you get a result like this. What happens when you don't do that? You get the results in the blue states. Those states have very aggressive goals. These are also the states that have risk of running out of power, and where you have risks of not having enough gas in your pipelines to meet demand when the weather gets cold like in Winter Storm Fern. These are just the facts of the system. I just wanted to point that out. You all know this. I'm saying this more to colleagues on the other side of the aisle who continually blame us for rising costs. Secondly, I want to just highlight [these maps]. You are also very familiar with these maps (Image 2). These are the maps of the NERC reliability assessment. This map up here is what drove me to run for Congress. After 12 years as a state utility regulator, seeing the policies that are occurring all over our country—and really the step by step dismantling of our power grid and our systems—I decided I need to take my expertise, come here, and try to fight for just common sense energy policy. That's it. It shouldn't be partisan. This is the fundamental need in our country. It provides the baseline for everything we do. I urge you all to focus on this, because this has gotten worse. We have more parts of the country at high risk and elevated risk of not having enough power to meet demand, and that's today or in the very near future. That is before we even talk about meeting the ever-growing appetite of AI, which is also a very serious national security issue. So whatever you need help with, whatever tools you need to focus on this, consider me as an ally. I want to help you in any way that I possibly can. | 1 | 2026-03-30T01:40:41Z | 2026-04-06T21:03:58Z |