Transmission

S&P Global webinar excerpted, with remarks by S&P Global’s vice chair and acclaimed author, Dan Yergin, with Mohsen Bonakdarpour, Olivier Beaufils, John Mothersole, Keerti Rajan.

Resiliency is on the table whether we call it out or not. It should spark the same questions we throw at reliability when addressing cost of service and prudent investments.

“MISO recently approved what they call their LRTP, Long Range Transmission Plan Tranche One – 18 projects spread out from North Dakota to Michigan, including Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.”

“Transmission projects and especially groups of projects yield multiple value streams, but there is a tendency to group in traditional buckets of economic benefits, reliability benefits, and policy-driven benefits. What does it take to build our grid of the future?”

“DOE is looking at a larger objective, which is how we can more effectively serve the entire Eastern Interconnection. That is a different starting place for planning, and likely will produce different transmission planning projects. EIPC is a good clearinghouse for that.”

Conversation with Neara’s General Manager-Americas, Rob Brook, on his experiences in our industry, what attracted him to this major Australia-based company, and how he views his current role.

“The previous method for assessing resource adequacy may be obsolete. We need to rethink how we understand and quantify generating capacity, energy supply, and how load is served.”

Members of the FERC-NARUC Task Force on Electric Trans­mission held a panel and discussed holding its first meeting. Members shared their priorities for the work of the task force and views on what they hope it can accomplish.

Panelists discussed lessons learned from transmission experiences and necessary considerations for future projects.

“The time has come for FERC to forcefully reiterate that investments in transmission infrastructure are a national priority.”