Governing the grid for the future: The case for a Federal Grid Planning Authority Introduction

Governing the grid for the future: The case for a Federal Grid Planning Authority Shelley Welton Introduction Simultaneously, this system is under exorbitant pres- sure to adapt: As reliability falters under intensifying The electricity grid is the backbone of a successful clean weather events, demand for clean electricity is swelling. [...] The Biden Administration integrate, balance, and smooth variable resources across and numerous states now share an ambition to transition the country, enhancing reliability in the face of mounting the U. [...] More modestly, it argues that to interconnect a new resource, it submits to its regional applying a governance lens on the problems plaguing the operator an interconnection request and is placed in an “in- grid highlights the importance and viability of numerous terconnection queue.” This process for managing intercon- smaller steps that regulators could take to improve over- nection has caused se. [...] Recognizing the importance of is the primary regulator of these interstate transmission forward planning to the development of adequate transmis- lines, whereas distribution lines are left to state regulation. [...] Recognizing connect to the grid promises to lower electricity prices and the substantial hurdles to the timely establishment of an force inefficient older generation out of electricity markets.