President Joe Biden's administration has a goal of a carbon-free power sector by 2035, in order to fight climate change. To meet that target, the country needs to more than double regional transmission capacity and expand interregional transmission capacity more than fivefold.
The FERC's rule on regional transmission planning and cost allocation has been under development for nearly two years.
"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."
"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.
#Solar, #wind provided majority of new US generating capacity in first half of 2023
Utility-scale solar and wind provided over half of new US generating capacity added in the first half of 2023, according to new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (#FERC) data. 17,017 megawatts (MW) of new generating capacity placed in service through June 30, 2023, 5,867 MW (34.48%) came from solar, and 2,750 MW (16.16%) came from wind for a combined total of 50.64%. https://electrek.co/2023/08/08/solar-wind-provided-majority-of-new-us-generating-capacity-in-first-half-of-2023/
Catalyst is an all-remote worker #Cooperative focused on open #DataEngineering, analysis, and open source software. We mostly work with public US data related to the energy system, pulling together information from #FERC, #EIA, #EPA, and other agencies and trying to turn it into analysis-ready database tables so advocates, policymakers, & researchers can focus on their own novel work instead.