The recent complaint challenging local transmission planning will only make it more difficult, more costly, and take longer to get transmission built throughout the United States,” said Larry Gasteiger, Executive Director of WIRES. “This is the needed transmission which is critical to delivering reliable power to customers in a cost effective and timely manner, and that is essential to facilitating economic growth, ensuring national security, and interconnecting new businesses. The complaint seeks to burden FERC and all transmission developers and interested stakeholders with unnecessary, inefficient, and cumbersome new processes and requirements for planning and building transmission. It is needlessly distracting and will divert FERC and industry resources from important work on ongoing regional transmission planning and compliance with FERC Orders 2023 and 1920. FERC should dismiss the complaint swiftly so everyone can return to the important work of quickly and efficiently meeting the country’s pressing transmission needs.
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WIRES is a non-profit trade association of investor-, publicly-, and cooperatively owned transmission providers, transmission customers, regional grid managers, and equipment and service companies. WIRES promotes investment in electric transmission and progressive state and federal policies that advance energy markets, economic efficiency, and consumer and environmental benefits through development of electric power infrastructure. For more information, visit wiresgroup.com.
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