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S&P Global – April 12 A package of far-reaching reforms to expand the nation’s high-voltage electric transmission system is coming into focus as congressional Democrats begin drafting legislation in line with President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure vision. The suite of policy proposals is largely centered on a new investment tax credit for regionally significant transmission lines and potentially two new grid-focused offices housed within the U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The transmission blitz comes amid a wave of recent in-depth repo...

Published: 15 Apr 2021, 06:48 By: Andy Colthorpe The basics of how a community microgrid built under the scheme would work to supply customers and critical facilities like hospitals in the event of outages or PSPS events. Image: PG&E. Communities at risk of losing their electricity supply in the service area of California utility PG&E when disasters strike are being supported in developing their own microgrids through a new scheme announced by the utility this week. PG&E, one of California’s three big investor-owned utility companies, is rolling out the Community Microgrid Ena...

California regulators and utilities want to build microgrids for communities most at threat from the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires, and the widespread public safety power shutoff (PSPS) grid outages meant to prevent them.  But despite policies to fund and enable these microgrids, California is still far from finding effective ways to get them in place for next year’s fire season.  Even Pacific Gas & Electric, the utility most affected by wildfires and fire-prevention blackouts, is struggling to find solutions to replace the hundreds of megawatts' worth of mobile diesel generato...