Weather’s role in wildfires in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #weather #climatechange #wildfireseasonWASHINGTON - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to issue a final rule on Monday that could set new requirements for moving electricity across states and covering the costs of new transmission projects - which will play a key role in the Biden administration's goal of decarbonizing the economy by 2050.
President Joe Biden's administration has a goal of a carbon-free power sector by 2035, in order to fight climate change. To meet that target, the country needs to more than double regional transmission capacity and expand interregional transmission capacity more than fivefold, a U.S. Department of Energy study said in November.
"Unfortunately very few utilities or regions have been doing that planning and all the new demand and supply trying to connect to the grid is being stifled. This rule will help fix that," said Rob Gramlich, president of transmission consulting firm Grid Strategies. Boosted by tax incentives in Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the queue of power generation projects awaiting a connection to the electric grid is currently around 2,600 gigawatts, twice the amount of generation of the current U.S. power plant fleet.It has been our privilege to have the trust and support of our East Coast communities for the last 200 years. Our SaltWire team is always watching out for the place we call home.