The Department of Energy on Aug. 6, 2024, awarded $2.2 billion to eight transmission projects involving utilities that include Allete, Duke Energy, Eversource, National Grid, Pacific Gas and Electric and Southern California Edison.
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PJM’s inability to get wind, solar, and batteries online will cause utility bills to rise for 65 million customers from the Great Lakes to the mid-Atlantic.
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We are also excited to see Governors Katie Hobbs of Arizona and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico co-author an opinion article addressing the urgent need to upgrade the transmission grid in the West to improve grid reliability and better withstand increasingly extreme heat.
“The West’s electric grid has been neglected for decades, and our families and businesses are paying the price. Particularly with the rising threat of extreme heat, we need a transmission grid that can provide our homes, businesses, and our flourishing manufacturing facilities with the consistent and dependable energy supply they need to thrive.”
This op-ed highlights the importance of regional cooperation and investments in transmission infrastructure and calls for collective state action alongside federal support to ensure reliability, create jobs, and save on energy costs.
Leadership from Governors across the US is crucial in driving these initiatives forward. We look forward to seeing more decision-makers at all levels of government support a strong and reliable transmission grid!
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FERC approved all the jurisdictional ISO/RTO compliance filings with Order 895, which established rules for sharing credit information among the organized markets.
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The rule will not force customers who don’t benefit from new transmission lines to pay for them.
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Join former FERC Commissioner John Norris as he emphasizes the importance of regional grid planning and Order 1920 to Louisiana/MISO South.
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June 25, 2024
On June 23-25, the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators, sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation, convened Northwest Legislators around regional transmission and energy policy. The convening featured a conservation and transmission session led by the National Wildlife Federation's affiliate, Conservation Northwest, and a walkthrough of NCEL’s Transmission Briefing Book where legislators reviewed policy options for transmission, like grid enhancing technologies (GETs), streamlining permitting and siting, collocating with existing rights of ways (ROWs), labor & transmission, and conservation & transmission.
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Learn how the new FERC rulemaking creates valuable opportunities for PJM to strengthen its current draft long-term regional transmission planning proposal.
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June 20, 2024
2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 11:00 AM PT
On May 13, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released a long-awaited ruling aimed at improving transmission planning processes. A follow-up discussion to our May 24 webinar about the ins and outs of the ruling, this webinar explored the implications of the FERC Order on states, addressing key impacts, potential pushback, and Advanced Energy United's role in facilitating adaptation. View the recording. Verna Mandez, Transmission Director with Advanced Energy United, reflects on her moderation of this webinar, which explored how states can leverage FERC’s new rules to secure a more reliable and affordable transmission grid.
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