Transmission Line

Newsletter Archive

  • Transmission 101

  • Components of the power grid and your electric bill
  • Regulation critical to grid modernization
  • Promising solutions toward a 21st century transmission system

  • Planning

  • The role of regional transmission organizations in grid planning
  • Challenges to growing our nation's energy transmission system
  • FERC Order No. 1000 removes barriers to transmission development

  • Cost Allocation

  • Reforming the process for paying for transmission development
  • The benefits of new transmission development
  • Cost allocation practices across regional transmission organizations (RTOs)

  • Siting

  • The relationship between transmission planning and siting
  • Regulatory obstacles to reforming transmission siting
  • Challenges to the Energy Policy Act of 2005

Interviews

Regional transmission key to strengthening nation’s grid

ITC Holdings Executive VP and CFO Cameron Bready appears on Fox Business to discuss the grid.

Welch: Competitive wholesale markets best for customers

ITC Holdings CEO Joseph Welch discusses the industry at the Mackinac Policy Conference.

Welch: Cost allocation legislation could block new construction

ITC president and CEO Joseph Welch discusses cost allocation.

Welch: Now is the time for a national energy plan that will drive investment toward modernizing our electricity grid

ITC Holdings CEO Joseph Welch discusses how a meaningful national energy policy will transform the industry, unleash the potential of renewables and drive private investment toward a new transmission infrastructure.

Welch: The energy wasted by our inefficient grid is hurting our nation’s competitiveness

Joseph Welch, CEO of ITC Holdings weighs in on how the U.S. is falling behind other countries because of an aging and outdated electric grid.

Welch: All the technologies we want to employ require a modern grid

ITC Holdings CEO Joseph Welch discusses the need for rational legislative and regulatory changes that will help private investment build a modern energy grid.

Welch appears on Clean Skies Sunday

ITC President and CEO Joseph Welch appears on this popular Washington Sunday talk show to discuss how critical transmission development is to integrating renewable energy sources into the nation’s electrical grid.