Federal Climate Initiatives Aim To Speed Siting Of Transmission Lines - Climate Change
Most long-distance transmission lines continue to be developed without federal siting assistance or funding.
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Most long-distance transmission lines continue to be developed without federal siting assistance or funding.
FERC’s proposal to implement its backstop transmission siting authority from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ran into some opposition from states.
Sen. Joe Manchin called on colleagues to put politics aside and hammer out a bipartisan bill to accelerate permitting of energy and transmission projects.
DOE wants to accelerate transmission projects under development by designating their proposed routes as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) possesses a little-discussed and never-used limited authority to site certain transmission lines when state siting authorities fail to approve those lines.