"The Department of Energy on Wednesday announced its initial selection of 10 federal corridors for the development of multistate, ultra-high-capacity electric transmission lines.
And acting under its own authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission could approve the right-of-way for a power line located within a national interest corridor, overriding the objections of state officials if necessary."
"Under a separate program, DOE could buy up to half of the power flowing on new lines for resale to utilities, lifting some of the developers’ financial risk. "
"The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first major electric transmission policy update in over a decade that aims to speed up new interregional lines to move more #CleanEnergy to meet growing demand amid the explosion of electric vehicles, data centers and artificial intelligence."
"#FERC said that reforms to transmission planning received over 30,000 pages of comments, creating the largest public record ever considered by the commission."
I would love to know how many of these comments come from individual people, and how many were in favour of making the #grid renewables-ready.
"Perhaps the biggest obstacle to grid upgrades is the weird, disjointed government of the grid itself, where competing priorities from private operators, federal and state lawmakers, and regulatory agencies have kneecapped many proposals that cross state lines and involve multiple stakeholders who don’t play nice together."
"Twenty-one states are joining a push by the #Biden administration to modernize America’s aging #ElectricGrid, which is under pressure from growing demand, a changing power generation mix. and severe weather.
In exchange for federal technical and financial assistance opportunities, participating states will “prioritize efforts that support the adoption of modern grid solutions to expand grid capacity and build modern grid capabilities on both new and existing lines.”"
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