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Commenters disagreed over FERC’s proposed transmission planning rules, sparring over its 20-year planning horizon and reinstatement of the federal ROFR.
Grid-enhancing technologies took center stage last week at a WATT Coalition summit on ways to wring efficiencies out of existing transmission facilities.
Advocates of grid-enhancing technologies said “shared savings” is needed to persuade utilities to adopt low-cost investments to free up crucial transmission.
The Efficient Grid Interconnection Act would require FERC to revise rules on cost allocation and push RTOs and ISOs to consider grid-enhancing technologies.
While the advanced macrogrid required for the U.S. clean energy future is years and billions of dollars away, a new report from the WATT Coalition argues that currently available grid-enhancing technologies (GETs) could help optimize the grid and unlock gigawatts of renewables in interconnection queues. The study, conducted by the...