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Grain Belt Express promises stronger electric grid — if Missouri lawmakers don't kill it Kevin Hardy and Jeanne Kuang, The Kansas City Star © Mark Reinstein/ZUMA Wire/TNS Wind turbines at the Spearville Wind Farm, on September 23, 2014 in Spearville, Kansas. Developers of the Grain Belt Express say the massive transmission line remains on track to open up by 2025, connecting wind power in western Kansas with voracious demand in the East. The 800-mile project promises to add more reliability to the electric grid — all the more enticing since rolling blackouts in February...

The policies that govern U.S. transmission grid planning and investment can’t support the country’s need for an unprecedented expansion of clean energy. Federal regulators need to declare the current paradigm “unjust and unreasonable,” and implement a new one to spur hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in a nation-spanning transmission build-out over the next decade.  That’s the stark conclusion of Planning for the Future, a new report sponsored by clean-energy groups that have been demanding a major overhaul of federal transmission policy for years and see the Biden-H...

Dive Brief: A December study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes the United States can fully decarbonize its power sector through the use of existing technologies — and that tackling decarbonization through a federal policy framework, rather than individual states setting clean energy goals, can help to significantly lower the costs. The research found that interstate coordination and an expansion of the nation's transmission system could lower the cost of fully decarbonizing the electrical grid by 2040 by 46%, relative to an approach where states pursue...