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Transmission Line

Transmission Line is a primer on core issues surrounding electricity transmission in America. It is designed to give consumers, policymakers and business leaders an overview of our energy grid and explore promising solutions toward modernizing this vital national asset.

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