A new report from the Brattle Group highlights that Mid-Atlantic states have multiple avenues for developing critical transmission lines that they can act on today. The report, commissioned by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition (MAREC Action), identifies seven pathways for proactive transmission planning to reduce consumer, system-wide, and generator interconnection costs; create more certainty for generation development; and help states achieve clean energy goals, including offshore wind timelines.
“The goal of this report is to empower states to set their own direction on transmission planning to address multiple needs — reliability, economic growth, clean energy deployment, extreme weather resilience — in the most efficient way possible,” said Evan Vaughan, Executive Director, MAREC Action. “Building offshore wind at scale in the next decade is essential to meeting electricity demand in a clean and reliable manner, but transmission planning must start today. This report offers policymakers pathways to work more closely with neighboring states and to insist on proactive, multi-value transmission planning through PJM.”
Click here to see the press release from ACORE and download the full report.