ACORE responded to the Committee’s request for feedback on the current federal permitting process, challenges, and potential solutions following its February 19, 2025, hearing titled, “Improving the Federal Environmental Review and Permitting Process.”
Elise Caplan
Team Member
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
caplan@acore.org
Elise Caplan oversees ACORE’s work on federal policies to expand and modernize the grid, including actions taken by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, Council on Environmental Quality, and other agencies. Her areas of focus include transmission planning and cost allocation, siting and permitting, advanced transmission technologies, and energy markets. Elise leads MGI’s work on grid-enhancing technologies and high-performance conductors, as well as supporting MGI’s outreach and communications.
Before joining ACORE, Elise was an independent consultant, and prior to that spent 15 years as the Director of Electric Markets Analysis at the American Public Power Association (APPA). Elise has a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan.
Featured Work
ACORE Comments on the NERC Interregional Transfer Capability Study
- Grid Infrastructure
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
In these comments, ACORE commends NERC for the analysis while recognizing that the recommended 35 gigawatts of prudent additions to interregional transfer capability is an understatement of the need for interregional transmission.
ACORE Comments on MISO-SPP Waiver Request for CSP Study Requirements
- Grid Infrastructure
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE submitted comments supporting MISO and SPP’s request for a limited prospective waiver that would allow them to evaluate a wider array of transmission benefits as part of their Coordinated System Plan study.
ACORE Comments on PJM Surplus Interconnection Service Proposal
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE submitted comments supporting the PJM proposal for revisions to its Open Access Transmission Tariff governing Surplus Interconnection Service.
ACORE Protest of PJM Reliability Resource Initiative
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
PJM’s RRI proposal is unduly discriminatory and preferential, as well as in violation of the filed rate doctrine and the prohibition against retroactive ratemaking.
ACORE Comments on Large Loads Co-Located at Generation
ACORE is filing these comments to ensure that the forest of important policies to meet the accelerating load growth is not lost in the trees of the details of colocation agreements.
ACORE Comments on FERC Interconnection Workshops
- Renewable Energy Innovation
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE commends the Commission for holding these workshops and the panelists for their informative presentations and discussion.
Why Transmission Planning and Expansion are Necessary for our Economy
It’s critical that we not lose sight of FERC Order 1920’s significant benefits, especially for reliability and energy affordability.
ACORE Comments on Reactive Power Compensation
- Transmission & Power Markets
- Comments & Testimony
ACORE recommends that FERC reverse its proposal to remove compensation for reactive power within the standard power factor range.
ACORE Comments to DOE on Artificial Intelligence
- Renewable Energy Innovation
- Siting & Permitting Reform
- Comments & Testimony
What should the Commission’s top reliability priorities be for the next one to three years? Learn more in ACORE’s comments to FERC.
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