With demand for new electricity generation rapidly rising — amid long timelines for planning and building new transmission lines — utilities, regional grid operators, state regulators, and many other stakeholders are increasingly seeking options for expanding transmission capacity on the existing grid. Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETS) are hardware and/or software that dynamically increase the capacity and reliability of existing power…
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Opportunities for Transmission in TVA’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) faces a critical moment in planning for its future energy needs. These comments provide actionable recommendations that the TVA can implement to incorporate transmission considerations in its IRP and adopt proactive, multi-value transmission planning principles.
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.
Recommendations for Reducing Costs and Improving Reliability for Tennessee Valley Authority Customers
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is conducting its legally mandated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process, an undertaking that currently does not require inclusion of the transmission expansion options necessary to ensure procurement of the lowest-cost power options. Notably, the TVA service territory experienced rolling blackouts for the first time in its more than 90-year history…
Joint Letter to the Northeast Power Coordinating Council on HVDC Bipole Contingencies
ACORE, the American Clean Power Association, and RENEW Northeast wrote to request that the Northeast Power Coordinating Council reassess its current treatment of bipole high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems as a single contingency and align with the both the North American Electric Reliability Corporation’s criteria and European practice to instead treat the loss of both poles as two separate contingencies when considering new, modern HVDC systems.
Joint Letter to Department of the Treasury and IRS on Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax
- Project Finance
- Tax Incentives & Appropriations
- Comments & Testimony
- Letters
ACORE, American Clean Power Association, and the Solar Energy Industries Association jointly filed a letter in response to the Department of the Treasury and IRS’s notice of proposed rulemaking regarding the implementation of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax.
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.
The Latest Statistics & Trends on U.S. Clean Energy
This resource provides key information and research on U.S. clean energy, including data on affordability, jobs, investment, capacity, and sustainability.
Bridging Demand and Financing: Voluntary Offtake in Clean Energy
This report explains how voluntary offtake agreements support clean energy projects and addresses common misconceptions about their value.
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