A broad coalition of business, labor, consumer & environmental groups working to expand and modernize America's grid — for reliability and affordability.
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The @nytopinion editorial board on the bipartisan permitting bill: “Congress should pass this bill now.”
Demand is climbing, but a long-distance line can take 5–13 years. @rhodium_group finds the bill would nearly triple high-voltage line construction.
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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid retweeted
Voters want lower energy costs. As Congress returns to close out the 119th, @CleanEnergyGrid said it best: “A bipartisan bill to bring energy bills down is ready now, and the lame-duck session is the time to pass it.”
Relief on energy bills can’t wait for a new Congress. Lawmakers need to pass permitting reform now. Read more: cleanenergygrid.org/midterms…
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid retweeted
The Senate votes on BAAJA today(!!!), and it's worth noting how broad & strong support is: unions, every major clean energy trade group, investors, public & private power, rural co-ops, transit, governors, counties, & the people who've run national economic & security policy. 🧵
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid retweeted
Organizations nationwide are voicing their support for BAAJA.
From labor unions to small manufacturers to clean energy and climate groups, the country wants more affordable clean energy. 🧵
Energy costs were front and center in last week’s midterms: nearly 9 in 10 voters called the cost of living a crucial or major factor in their vote. The Senate takes its first vote on BAAJA today. Congress should pass it in the lame duck.
🔗 cleanenergygrid.org/midterms…
BAAJA’s manager’s amendment is out. Its transmission provisions are the core of how the bill lowers power bills and keeps the grid reliable.
Thank you @SenCapito @SenMikeLee @SenatorHeinrich @SenWhitehouse. Congress should pass it this year.
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New @rff modeling of the bipartisan permitting bill:
➡️ ~30% more transmission capacity by 2041
➡️ Lines connecting regions more than double
➡️ $350B+ in power system savings through 2050
The results held in every scenario RFF ran.
🔗 rff.org/publications/issue-b…
SunZia was proposed in 2006 and came online this year, now carrying power 550 miles to over a million homes in Arizona and California. @voxdotcom on why it took 20 years, and why, with demand climbing fast, the next lines can’t wait that long.
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America can’t compete if it can’t build the grid. Former officials from both parties, Yellen to Pompeo, agree. Interregional transmission planning and a stronger federal backstop are where to start. Congress should pass the bipartisan permitting bill.
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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid retweeted
7/Transmission people tell me this is some of the best language we've ever seen, better than they expected. Interregional AND regional planning, and a backstop process that actually works, with clear, uniform rules on cost allocation.
The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, introduced today by @SenCapito, @SenWhitehouse, @SenMikeLee and @SenatorHeinrich, includes some of the most significant grid reforms in decades. Congress should finish the job this year.
🔗 cleanenergygrid.org/aceg-sta…
The North Plains Connector's federal environmental review took under two years. The average federal environmental review takes four and a half.
A first-of-its-kind link between the Eastern and Western grids, moving at a pace that should be normal.
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New @SPGlobal analysis for Electricity Customer Alliance: expanding transmission pays for itself in every scenario modeled — and interregional lines deliver 2-3x the value of building locally only.
$8.4B in value left on the table if we stay constrained.
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DOE regional feedback sessions on its draft transmission needs study:
Reno 8/13
Des Moines 8/18
Atlanta 8/20
Jefferson City 8/24
Can't make it? Comments due 9/7.
Draft findings only hold up if the record backs them. Add yours.
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A lot is happening in transmission right now — at FERC, in the RTOs, on the Hill, and in the states.
ACEG's newsletter pulls it together weekly, with our take on what it means. Free to subscribe:
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New from @ClearPathAction: building new transmission is essential to serving demand growth — new pathways, resources unlocked, reliability held. Reconductoring adds near-term capacity alongside it.
All of it: 7–8% of total system investment.
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"Transmission is synonymous with headroom."
Much of the grid is running close to full, and tight supply means higher prices. More transmission, more room, lower bills.
@DanielPalken on @heatmap_news's Shift Key:
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State regulators are pointing to interregional HVDC transmission as a resource adequacy solution.
@NARUC's board adopted a resolution on 7/22 encouraging RTOs, utilities, and federal policymakers to weigh interregional HVDC in resource planning.
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"We need to find a way to build more high voltage transmission lines in the next decade. Our ability to grow our economy depends on it."
@SenatorHeinrich, FERC oversight hearing last week 👇