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

Panel Discussions

WIRES Coalition hosts briefing on cost allocation

A Capitol Hill briefing explores the contentious issue of who pays for ne grid devlopment.

How to build a national transmission superhighway

ITC Holdings CEO Joseph Welch offers the perspective of an independent transmission provider working to make a national transmission superhighway a reality.