In recent years, the Macro Grid Initiative, coalition partners, ally groups, and academic and government institutions have developed groundbreaking reports highlighting the benefits of expanding and upgrading the nation’s transmission grid, as well as the regulatory challenges that are blocking progress to those upgrades. Those reports, organized by topic, are archived below.
Energy Assurance Depends on a Resilient Transmission Grid
Benefits of Transmission
Upgrading And Expanding High-Voltage Transmission Creates Well-Paid Jobs, Drives Economic Growth
Transmission And Climate Change
The Benefits Of High-Voltage Transmission In A Competitive Global Economy
The Value of Increased HVDC Capacity Between Eastern and Western U.S. Grids: The Interconnections Seam Study
Bloom, et al. National Renewable Energy Lab (May 2022)
Transmission Planning for 100% Clean Electricity
ESIG (February 2021)
The Value of Inter-Regional Coordination and Transmission in Decarbonizing the US Electricity System
Patrick Brown and Audun Botterud, MIT (January 2021)
Net-Zero America: Potential Pathways, Infrastructure, And Impacts
Larson, et al., Princeton University (December 2020)
Grid Vision: The Electric Highway To A 21st Century Economy
AWEA (May 2019)
North American Supergrid: Transforming Electricity Transmission
Climate Institute (October 2017)
Future Cost-Competitive Electricity Systems And Their Impact On US CO2 Emissions
MacDonald, et al. Nature Climate Change (January 2016)
Electricity Transmission is Key to Unlock the Full Potential of the Inflation Reduction Act
Princeton University (September 2022)
Investment Tax Credit for Regionally Significant Electricity Transmission Lines
ACORE and Grid Strategies (May 2021)
Transmission Projects Ready To Go: Plugging Into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) and Macro Grid Initiative (April 2021)
Enabling Low-Cost Clean Energy and Reliable Service Through Better Transmission Benefits Analysis: MISO LRTP Case Study
Grid Strategies, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (August 2022)
Multi-Value Transmission Planning for a Clean Energy Future
ESIG (June 2022)
Transmission Planning For The 21st Century
Brattle, Grid Strategies, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (October 2021)
How Are We Going to Build All That Clean Energy Infrastructure?
Niskanen Center and the Clean Air Task Force (August 2021)
How Transmission Planning & Cost Allocation Processes Are Inhibiting Wind & Solar Development In SPP, MISO, & PJM
Concentric Energy Advisors, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (March 2021)
Planning for the Future: FERC’s Opportunity to Spur More Cost-Effective Transmission Infrastructure
ACEG and Macro Grid Initiative (January 2021)
Report On Barriers And Opportunities For High Voltage Transmission
FERC (June 2020)
The Value of Transmission During Winter Storm Elliott
ACORE, Grid Strategies (February 2023)
Economic, Reliability, and Resilience Benefits of Interregional Transmission Capacity
GE Consulting, NRDC (October 2022)
Potential Customer Benefits of Interregional Transmission
GE Consulting, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (November 2021)
Transmission Makes The Power System Resilient To Extreme Weather
Grid Strategies, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (July 2021)
Consumer, Employment, and Environmental Benefits of Electricity Transmission Expansion in the Eastern United States
Vibrant Clean Energy and ACEG (October 2021)
The Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative
U.S. Department of Energy (December 2011)
Just & Reasonable? Transmission Upgrades Charged to Interconnecting Generators Are Delivering System-Wide Benefits
ICF Resources, ACORE, and Macro Grid Initiative (September 2021)
Disconnected: The Need For A New Generator Interconnection Policy
Advanced Conductors on Existing Transmission Corridors to Accelerate Low Cost Decarbonization
Grid Strategies and ACORE (March 2022)
The Benefit and Urgency of Planned Offshore Transmission: Reducing the Costs of and Barriers to Achieving U.S. Clean Energy Goals
Brattle, American Clean Power Association (ACP), the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), the Clean Air Task Force (CATF), GridLab, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) (January 2023)
The Benefit and Cost of Preserving the Option to Create a Meshed Offshore Grid for New York
Brattle, NYSERDA (November 2021)
Offshore Wind Transmission White Paper
Grid Strategies and Business Network for Offshore Wind (October 2020)
Macrogrids In The Mainstream: An International Survey Of Plans And Progress
Iowa State University, ACEG, and Macro Grid Initiative (November 2020)
