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Report Calls for a Ground-Up Overhaul of Federal Transmission Grid Policy

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The policies that govern U.S. The 92-page report comes amidst a major shift in federal energy policy. Richard Glick, the newly named Democratic FERC chairman , has highlighted transmission policy as a key focus for the agency this year. The problems with transmission today.

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Midwest Grid Operators Seek to Unlock Clean Energy Transmission on the ‘Seam’

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Midwest has massive wind power potential, and it’s a growing target for solar power projects as well. That seam cuts from north to south across the country’s wind-rich Great Plains , making it a key barrier to transmission lines that could carry wind power to eastern markets hungry for carbon-free energy.

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Transmission Emerging as Major Stumbling Block for State Renewable Targets

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In simple terms, the cheapest wind power is from the Great Plains and Intermountain West , and the cheapest solar power is from the Southwest and Southeast regions, and both need a way to reach faraway coastal markets. “We need to have decision-making lining up with policy," Gasteiger said. transmission grid.

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Sweeping Senate Energy Bill Could Come to a Vote This Week

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Murkowski, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. This policy, part of a 2019 bill from Sens. Renewable energy.

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Dynamic Line Rating: Expanding Transmission Grid Capacity for Clean Energy

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Belgian grid operator Elia has been testing it since 2008, and results indicate the 5 to 20 percent increase in ratings it can discover can improve market dispatch cost-effectiveness and increase integration and reduce curtailment of solar and wind power, according to a 2020 report from International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

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A Nordic energy giant shows how a carbon turnaround happens

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The critical elements were supportive government policy at home, a laser-focus not only on renewables but the one renewable niche where its advantage lay, a bit of luck early on and a financing innovation that turbo-charged its transition once underway. France built nuclear power. Denmark looked to offshore wind.

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Massive Senate Energy Bill Falters

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Murkowski, chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, called it “our best chance to modernize our nation's energy policies in more than 12 years,” or since the passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December. Renewable energy.