More Interregional Transmission Could Have Saved Nearly $1 Billion, Preserved Power for 200,000 Homes During Texas Freeze Press ReleasesBy Blake McCarrenJuly 22, 2021July 22, 2021 More Interregional Transmission Could Have Saved Nearly $1 Billion, Preserved Power for 200,000 Homes During Texas Freeze First-of-its-Kind Analysis Quantifies the Value of Added Transmission During Recent Severe Weather Events in Texas, the Northeast and the Midwest WASHINGTON, D.C. — Each additional gigawatt (GW) of transmission capacity connecting the Texas power…
Transmission Makes the Power System Resilient to Extreme Weather ReportsBy Blake McCarrenJuly 22, 2021 Transmission Makes the Power System Resilient to Extreme Weather, a report released by the American Council on Renewable Energy and authored by Grid Strategies LLC, quantifies the value added interregional transmission would have provided during five severe weather events in Texas, the Northeast and the Midwestern United States over the last decade. The analysis…
