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…
How Transmission Planning & Cost Allocation Processes Are Inhibiting Wind & Solar Development in SPP, MISO, & PJM ReportsBy Erin SnyderMarch 25, 2021 Concentric Energy Advisors conducted candid interviews with twenty key market participants and stakeholders in SPP, MISO, and PJM electric markets on current transmission planning and cost allocation processes. The report outlines transmission planning processes in these three regions and presents insights from market participants based on their recent experiences. The key findings include: (1)…
Accelerating Renewable Energy with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission BlogBy Tyler StoffJanuary 27, 2021By: Tyler Stoff January 27, 2021 An examination of the way the new Biden administration can use its executive authority to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy might well begin with a look at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Among several important functions, FERC regulates the nation’s wholesale power markets. President Biden recently appointed…
ACORE Hosts its First-Ever Virtual Grid Forum BlogBy Maheen Ahmad and Adam CareyNovember 25, 2020By: Maheen Ahmad and Adam Carey November 25, 2020 ACORE’s annual Grid Forum convenes renewable energy industry executives and thought leaders to explore the business opportunities, policy and regulatory issues, and technology challenges associated with integrating increasingly high penetrations of renewable electricity on the grid. This year, on November 17-18, ACORE hosted its first-ever virtual Grid Forum with the theme “maximizing renewables integration through grid modernization.” Hundreds of attendees…
Macro Grid in the Congressional Limelight BlogBy Tracy WarrenAugust 3, 2020By: Tracy Warren August 3, 2020 “The pursuit and achievement of a Macro Grid – an interregionally connected backbone for the nation’s transmission grid – is essential for the United States to achieve its climate goals and ‘charge up’ the economy.” This was the message that Beth Soholt, the Executive Director of the Clean Grid…
A Macro Grid Vision to Achieve the Nation’s Climate Goals and “Charge Up” the Economy Comments & TestimonyBy Erin SnyderJuly 28, 2020Beth Soholt Testimony to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
