WASHINGTON, D.C. — On March 31, 2021, President Biden released “The American Jobs Plan,” a factsheet outlining his new infrastructure plan. The White House plan stated that it would “put hundreds of thousands of people to work laying thousands of miles of transmission lines,” and called on Congress to invest $100 billion to build a
Transmission Projects Ready to Go: Plugging into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 27, 2021) — Today, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid released a new report, “Transmission Projects Ready to Go: Plugging Into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources, ” which identifies 22 shovel ready, high-voltage transmission projects across the country that, if constructed, would create approximately 1,240,000 American jobs and lead to 60,000 megawatts (MW)
ACEG Commends Senator Heinrich for the Introduction of the Transmission Investment Tax Credit
Washington, D.C. (March 26, 2021) — On Friday, March 26, 2021, Senator Heinrich (D-NM) reintroduced the Electric Power Infrastructure Improvement Act to establish a tax credit for interregional transmission lines. The investment tax credit would immediately stimulate the types of transmission projects that are not moving forward today, and which are needed to grow clean
Power System Resilience, Reliability, and Efficiency through Transmission
Download the full briefing document here. Transmission Supports Resilience, Reliability, and Efficiency ISO-New England: “The system’s ability to withstand various transmission facility and generator contingencies and move power around without dependence on local resources under many operating conditions…, results in a grid that is, as defined by the Commission, resilient.”1 NYISO: “…resiliency is closely linked
ACEG Applauds the Introduction the CLEAN Future Act and the POWER ON Act
Washington, D.C. (March 4, 2021) — On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released the “Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act and Representative Scott Peters (CA-52) introduced the Prevent Outages with Energy Resiliency Options Nationwide (POWER ON) Act. The bills include robust transmission provisions that
Transmission Time – Transmission, Clean Energy, and Resilience: A Conversation with Grid Owners and Planners in SPP
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at 2:00pm EST, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) hosted “Transmission Time” for a discussion with top executives of the grid operator and owner in a region that was ground zero for the recent cold snap and also for the highest renewable energy penetration in the country. Peggy Simmons,
Transmission Time – Making Inter-Regional Transmission Easier: Transmission Technology Innovations
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 2:00pm EST, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) hosted the next installment of “Transmission Time” where panelists discussed innovations in transmission that may help with the cost and permitting difficulties with large scale regional and inter-regional transmission. Michael Pesin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Advanced Grid Research and
Coalition Calls on FERC to Strengthen Regional and Interregional Transmission Planning
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 27, 2021) – A bipartisan group of nine former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairs joined with transmission and renewable industry leaders earlier today to discuss and comment on a proposal to significantly expand the nation’s transmission capacity to properly support a reliable, affordable, and clean power system. The report, “Planning for