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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s grid deployment office released its much-anticipated?national transmission planning study. The study arrived in tandem with the news of?the office’s investment?of $1.5 billion in four transmission projects via a new revolving fund facilitated by the 2021 infrastructure law. According to Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies LLC, there has long been an opportunity for the federal government to take a larger role in transmission, and the joint news marks “a decisive change”?in that direction. But in an era when transmission projects are increasingly hard to build, even as they’re increasingly needed, will the government’s embrace of the challenge be enough? https://lnkd.in/ezbtb2gZ

Want to know about capacity markets, resource adequacy, reserve margins, the different ways of doing that? Herman Trabish and I break it down. https://lnkd.in/dkci3TcD

Learn why we need large-scale transmission in the MIT Technology Review: As it stands, the meager links between the Eastern Interconnection and Western Interconnection amount to “tiny little soda straws connecting two Olympic swimming pools,” says Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies LLC Strategies, a consultancy in Washington, DC.?" Read more from James Temple about how Michael Skelly plans to build some of the interregional transmission we need: https://lnkd.in/gnFK9r_G

In the United States, demand for power is growing faster than supply, and especially clean supply, can keep up. As a result, a growing chorus of grid experts and stakeholders, including both?the White House?and?the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)?earlier this year, have encouraged the deployment of grid-enhancing technologies, or GETs, a type of advanced transmission technology, to make the most of the existing grid. The latest buoy for advanced transmission is?a roadmap for their deployment?from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, authored by Rob Gramlich, founder and president of Grid Strategies LLC; Brian Deese, former director of the National Economic Council under the Biden administration and current innovation fellow at MIT; and Anna Pasnau, an economic advisor at MIT who works closely with Deese. https://lnkd.in/eM5B7y_D

Tune into the conversation on the importance of transmission and how we will deliver affordable, reliable and clean energy across the west at this year’s Stakeholder Symposium’s panel “Transmission: Connecting the west through innovation and wires”. ? Agenda ?? https://ow.ly/F87J50TmaQC Grid Strategies LLC, Pattern Energy Group, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, AES Corporation , U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), LS Power

?? Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Transmission Champions reception last night! It was an honor to commemorate Chair Willie Phillips, Congressman Scott Peters, Senator Martin Heinrich, and Congressman Andrew Garbarino, as well as to celebrate all the efforts being made to ensure a more cost-effective and reliable grid.

Do you agree with our four recommended reforms to interconnect new generation more efficiently in the United States? Download our new paper with The Brattle Group to learn more: https://lnkd.in/egV4s4ZE? ?? This report was co-commissioned by Advanced Energy United and the Solar and Storage Industries Institute, with endorsement from the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA).?

There’s?momentum?behind permitting reform in the U.S. Congress right now. It could mean unstopping a serious bottleneck in climate tech — transmission. So we’re revisiting a Catalyst episode from last May with Grid Strategies LLC's Rob Gramlich to understand how we got here, the impacts on climate tech, and the potential fixes. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/eeb4cPeF

State & local opportunities to transform transmission, distribution and offtake can meet increased demands for cheaper and more reliable renewable power. Frequent or prolonged power outages make transmission a critical issue among consumers. Expansion of renewable power capacity from the Gulf of Mexico and across the Gulf States makes transmission, distribution, and offtake essential. Join moderator Tershara Matthews and speakers Davante Lewis, Andrew Tuozzolo, Julia Selker, and Louise White (lead author on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Innovative Grid Deployment) to learn more about what’s possible at this GSREIA webinar on Friday, August 16th at 1 pm CST. Register at https://gsreia.link/8-16/

Only 55 miles of new high-voltage transmission were built in 2023, continuing a decline in the number of new miles built each year over the past decade.? ? Our latest report for Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), “Fewer New Miles: The US Transmission Grid in the 2020s”, shows that despite this decline in new construction, annual transmission spend has risen to more than $25 billion, with 90% of this spend driven by reliability upgrades and the replacement of aging equipment, which does not increase delivery capacity.? ? FERC Order No. 1920 aims to reform long-term planning practices and facilitate the construction of new high-voltage lines. Both policymakers and regulators can capitalize on FERC’s issuance of Order 1920 to?spur a massive investment in the construction of new high-voltage transmission lines to ensure a reliable and affordable transition to a cleaner grid.? ? Find out more in the full report: https://lnkd.in/gybmeAjS Download the summary: https://lnkd.in/gMmaVxdR