Advanced Conductors on Existing Transmission Corridors to Accelerate Low Cost Decarbonization ReportsBy Allie HartleyMarch 15, 2022 Advanced Conductors on Existing Transmission Corridors to Accelerate Low Cost Decarbonization
Potential Customer Benefits of Interregional Transmission ReportsBy Allie HartleyNovember 29, 2021 The report, ‘Potential Customer Benefits of Interregional Transmission,’ produced by GE International, Inc. for the Macro Grid Initiative, points to three geographic areas today with greater than 70% renewable energy penetration: California, Denmark and the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). The report notes that the demand for clean energy from public policies leads to 20-50%…
Ensuring Low-Cost Reliability: Resource Adequacy Recommendations for a Clean Energy Grid ReportsBy Allie HartleyNovember 23, 2021Ensuring Low-Cost Reliability: Resource Adequacy Recommendations for a Clean Energy Grid Appendix A: Legal Analysis Appendix B: Technical Analysis
Transmission Planning for the 21st Century: Proven Practices that Increase Value and Reduce Costs ReportsBy Allie HartleyOctober 13, 2021 Transmission Planning for the 21st Century, a report by The Brattle Group and Grid Strategies LLC, produced with funding from the American Council on Renewable Energy, and with support from the Macro Grid Initiative and the Natural Resource Defense Council, examines how a suite of transmission planning reforms could reduce system costs, enable more…
Maximizing Cost Savings and Emission Reductions: Power Market Options for the Southeast United States ReportsBy Allie HartleySeptember 28, 2021Maximizing Cost Savings and Emission Reductions: Power Market Options for the Southeast United States
Just & Reasonable? Transmission Upgrades Charged to Interconnecting Generators Are Delivering System-Wide Benefits ReportsBy Allie HartleySeptember 9, 2021 Just and Reasonable? Transmission Upgrades Charged to Interconnecting Generators Are Delivering System-Wide Benefits, a report by ICF Resources on behalf of the American Council on Renewable Energy, produced with support from the Macro Grid Initiative and in collaboration with American Clean Power Association, finds that while the entire power system typically benefits from significant…
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…
Energy Market Design and the Southeast United States ReportsBy Erin SnyderJune 29, 2021Energy Market Design and the Southeast United States
Investment Tax Credit for Regionally Significant Transmission Lines: A Description and Analysis ReportsBy Erin SnyderMay 13, 2021 Investment Tax Credit for Regionally Significant Transmission Lines: A Description and Analysis, a report produced by Grid Strategies on behalf of the American Council on Renewable Energy, assesses the impacts and benefits of a tax credit for transmission investment. The report finds that a 30 percent investment tax credit would create over 650,000 good-paying…
Transmission Projects Ready to Go: Plugging into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources ReportsBy Allie HartleyApril 27, 2021 Transmission Projects Ready-to-Go: Plugging into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources identifies 22 high-voltage transmission projects that, if built, could create around 600,000 jobs and interconnect 60,000 megawatts of new, renewable capacity. According to research conducted by Americans for a Clean Energy Grid and sponsored by the Macro Grid Initiative, the wind and solar development enabled…
