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WIRES Announcements

11/12/2009
WIRES Petition to FERC
on Cost Allocation


 

WIRES formulates transmission legislation proposal; Seeks comments.
Please submit comments by email.


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Proposed legislation


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Breaking News

Sen. Reid's Decision on Climate Bill Leaves D.C. Scrambling to Pick Up the Pieces, The New York Times (July 23, 2010)
 
We’re Gonna Be Sorry, Column by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times (July 24, 2010)

 
Transmission News

How Smart Is The Smart Grid? from NPR (July 7, 2010)

AEP, MidAmerican Transmission Joint Venture Releases Phase One of SMARTransmission Study (July 1, 2010)

See more news in the WIRES Newsroom
 
News from WIRES

WIRES Lauds FERC’s Rulemaking on Regional Transmission Planning, Cost Allocation (June 17, 2010)
Read WIRES' Petition on Cost Allocation
FERC News Release  FERC Fact Sheet 
FERC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

WIRES Statement Regarding Supreme Court on Siting (January 20, 2010)

WIRES Petitions FERC, Calling for Aggressive Action On Cost Allocation Principles to Help Speed Grid Development (November 12, 2009)
See also: Petition, ClimateWire Story

See more news in the WIRES Newsroom

 
Key Reports 

Climate Change, Emerging Renewable Technologies, Carbon Costs and Volatile Fossil Fuel Prices Driving New Business Models, Ceres (July 10, 2010)

White Paper: Challenges in Integrating Renewable Technologies into an Electric Power System by the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (April 2010)

U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 National Electric Transmission Congestion Study 
Read the 2009 Study

Electricity Transmission Cost Allocation, Congressional Research Service (April 19, 2010)

See more in Industry Reports

 
Pending Transmission Legislation

On Transmission Cost Allocation, WIRES Tells Congress To Let The Regulators Regulate
 [Read the Letter] (April 13, 2010)

See more in Legislation
 
WIRES University

WIRES briefings and panel discussions on Capitol Hill:

  • NEW! Electric Transmission 203: Planning to Expand and Upgrade the Grid (speakers' presentation)
  • Electric Transmission 202: Integrating Variable Renewable Resources
  • Electric Transmission 201: Cost Allocation
  • Electric Transmission 103: Upgrading the Grid
  • Electric Transmission 102: Policy Challenges to Grid Expansion
  • Electric Transmission 101: How the Grid Works

See more in WIRES University


 
Noteworthy

“While I anticipate legitimate differences of opinion on cost allocation, we as a country can no longer be encumbered by piecemeal or facility-by-facility decisions. Developing rules that provide certainty and clarity up front is necessary to foster much needed investment in transmission, which benefits the nation's consumers.” 

-- Statement of FERC Commissioner Marc Spitzer, on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in Docket No. RM10-23, June 17, 2010.Rulemaking in Docket No. RM10-23

 
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