As the focus in Washington turns to upcoming energy and climate legislation, two DC-based associations wrote letters to leaders in the U.S. Senate calling for overall transmission reform and specific changes to proposed cost allocation language.
WIRES, a national non-profit group of transmission providers and customers, applauded S.1462, but requested a change to the cost allocation language before passing it into law:
WIRES urges you to support S. 1462, amended to remove the “reasonably proportionate to measurable economic and reliability benefits” language in section 121.
Similarly, the Transmission Access Policy Study Group (TAPS) requested “clear cost allocation principles for new transmission in approved regional and interregional plans.” TAPS emphasized that FERC should oversee these principles and “give appropriate recognition to the multiple and changing benefits that will be provided over the life of major new transmission lines…”
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Read the WIRES letter