Transmission Infrastructure

Energy Transmission

Transmission Infrastructure

Development of new transmission is essential to prepare for the deployment of large amounts of clean energy resources onto the grid. State and federal regulators are tasked with addressing issues on how to plan and pay for new transmission development and navigating related jurisdictional issues. For this reason, NARUC is preparing increased opportunities for collaboration and cooperation between state regulators, subject matter experts, impacted stakeholders, and federal regulators to identify barriers to and opportunities for transmission expansion.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) established the Joint Federal State Task Force on Electric Transmission with NARUC to facilitate cooperation and the exchange of perspectives with states on transmission-related issues. The first meeting was held in November 2021. Members of the Task Force consist of all five FERC commissioners and ten state commissioners, with two state task force members representing each NARUC region.

Resources

Order Establishing the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission

Docket No. AD21-15, FERC, June 17, 2021

Regional Transmission Planning

Regional Transmission Planning: A Review of Practices Following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, November 2017

Transmission Benefits and Cost Allocation

Transmission Cost Allocation: Principles, Methodologies, and Recommendations, The Brattle Group, November 16, 2020
How Transmission Planning & Cost Allocation Processes are Inhibiting Wind & Solar Development in SPP, MISO, & PJM, ACORE, March 2021

Generator Interconnection

Plugging In: A Roadmap for Modernizing & Integrating Interconnection and Transmission Planning, Enel Green Power Working Paper
Generator Interconnection and Transmission Planning, The Brattle Group, August 9, 2022

Interregional Transmission Planning

A Roadmap to Improved Interregional Transmission Planning, The Brattle Group, November 2021
Interregional Transmission Coordination: A review of practices following FERC Order Nos. 890 and 1000, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, October 2019

Advanced Notices of Proposed Rulemakings (ANOPRs):

ANOPR: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (RM21-17-000), FERC, July 16, 2021
NARUC ANOPR Comments on RM21-17-000, NARUC, October 12, 2021

Notices of Proposed Rulemakings (NOPRs):

NOPR: Building for the Future Through Electric Regional Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation and Generator Interconnection (RM21-17-000), FERC, April 21, 2022
Explainer on the Transmission Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FERC, April 21, 2022
NARUC NOPR Comments on RM21-17-000, NARUC, August 17, 2022
NOPR: Improvements to Generator Interconnection Procedures and Agreements (RM22-14-000), FERC, June 16, 2022
NARUC NOPR Comments on RM22-14-000, NARUC, October 13, 2022

Activities

First Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Regional Transmission Planning, November 10, 2021

Second Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Transmission Benefits and Cost Allocation Principles, February 16, 2022

Third Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Generator Interconnection, May 6, 2022

Fourth Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Interregional Transmission Planning, July 20, 2022

Fifth Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Addressing Regulatory Gaps/Challenges in Oversight of Transmission Development, November 15,2022

Sixth Meeting of the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission: Physical Security of the Transmission System, February 15,2023