At the centre of FERC’s so-called Order No. 1000, proposed in 2011, is the notion that grid-owning utilities should be required to co-operate in updating and expanding the country’s electricity transmission network to better accommodate statewide Renewable Portfolio Standards, carbon targets and other environmental policies.
Over time, the rule could lead to big improvements to the currently balkanized state of the US transmission network, which represents a serious handicap for renewables as some high-resource regions become saturated with wind and solar farms.
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