WOW this permitting bill is great! I think the #transmission parts (I'm focused just on that, others can comment on the rest) could really help grow the economy, meet load growth, increase reliability, and help decarbonize. Here’s why. 🧵 1/10
energy.senate.gov/2024/7/manchin… The bill addresses the 3Ps of transmission barriers—planning, permitting, and paying. Paying (cost allocation) is barrier #1 that blocks most lines before they start. It’s the new NIMBY—Not In My Bill but Yours But It Must Be Both Y’all (NIMBYBIMBY, ha). 2/10

They knew it in 1934. "Experience indicates that marked economies are effected when interconnecting transmission lines are built to tie all generating units and all the consumers of a wide area into one circuit. Without such lines, ... 1/4 "...each generating unit and its market are isolated. The generating unit must provide for a peak load which is much higher than the average load. The interconnecting of many markets and many generating units..." 2/4

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 is out! @SenSchumer , @Sen_JoeManchin led. We think it can drive a very large amount of clean energy, because transmission is renewable energy's biggest barrier. Importantly, NEPA is preserved, including public participation.🧵 The bill is here, transmission starts on page 76: energy.senate.gov/services/files…
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Great @FERC conference on climate and reliability. From Alison Silverstein: “Transmission offers broad benefits in terms of breadth of value creation and frequency of use." 1/14 @TheMacroGrid @CleanEnergyGrid elibrary.ferc.gov/eLibrary/filed… "We already know that high voltage transmission (HVT) offers huge reliability and resiliency benefits... 2/14