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Industry Reports, Papers and Articles

In this section, WIRES includes reports and articles that include historical and current information which provides insight into the status of the electric transmission industry.


 
WIRES Reports

Date Title  Source
     
December 2008 WIRES Has Filed with DOE Its Comments on the 2009 Congestion Study Which May Precede More Corridor Designations WIRES
     
November 2008 Integrating Locationally Constrained Resources Into Transmission Systems: A Survey of U.S. Practices WIRES
     
November 2007 A National Perspective on Allocating Cost of New Transmission Investment: Practice and Principles WIRES

 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Reports

Date Title  Source
     
2009  NERC Assessments:
  • 2009 Long-term Reliability Assessment
  • 2009 Scenario Assessment
North American Electric Reliability Corporation 
     
4/2009  NERC Analyses the Challenges of Renewables Integration:
  • Report Marks Initial Steps on Reliable Integration of Large-Scale Wind, Solar Into Electric Grid
  • Special Report: Accommodating High Levels of Variable Generation
  • Accommodating High Levels of Variable Generation
North American Electric Reliability Corporation
     
November 2008 NERC Special Report: Electric Industry Concerns on the Reliability Impacts of Climate Change North American Electric Reliability Corporation
     
October 2008 NERC's New Reliability Assessment Says More Transmission Is Needed to Maintain Bulk System Reliability and Integrate New Generation North American Electric Reliability Corporation

 
Other Reports

Date Title  Source
     
June 2010  Investment in Electric Transmission Will Surpass $606B Worldwide Between 2010 and 2020  Pike Research 
     
May 2010  Perryman Group Study: Typical Texas Residence Could Save $160-$355 Annually with New Lines Delivering Wind Power
[News Release] [Executive Summary] [Full Report] 
 Perryman Group
     
May 2010  NREL Finds Major Renewables Expansion in the Southwest Requires Up to $11B in New Transmission
[News Release] [Executive Summary (see p.26)] [Full Report] 
NREL 
     
March 2010  PJM Transmission Cost Allocation Paper
See also: PJM News Release (with summary)
PJM
     
February 2010  Transmission Projects at a Glance  Edison Electric Institute 
     
January 2010 Eastern Wind Integration and Transmission Study: Executive Summary and Project Overview National Renewable Energy Laboratory
     
SPP WITF Wind Integration Study Southwest Power Pool
     
August 2009 Electrical Transmission: Barriers and Policy Solutions  Duke University, Climate Change Policy Partnership 
     
August 2009  Transmission Siting in the Western United States  Western Interstate Energy Board 
     
April 2009  Electric Power Transmission: Background and Policy Issues  Congressional Research Service  
     
April 2009  U.S. Chamber of Commerce Site Summarizes Opposition to Transmission U.S. Chamber of Commerce  
     
February 2009  Study: Billions Needed to Deliver Wind Power to Eastern Interconnection Joint Coordinated System Plan
     
January 2009  Keeping the Lights On in a New World  Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC) 
     
December 2008  Bottling Electricity: Storage as a Strategic Tool for Managing Variability and Capacity Concerns in the Modern Grid 

Smart Grid: Enabler of the New Energy Economy
Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC)
     
November 2008 Landowner Wind Energy Associations in the West: A model for facilitating gigawatt-scale development Tony Frank and Bill Midcap, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
     
November 2008  Energy Policy and the Environment Report: The Million-Volt Answer to Oil  Peter W. Huber, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
     
November 2008 Renewables Call for Transmission Build Energy Risk magazine
     
October 2008 A 21st Century “Interstate Electric Highway System” – Connecting Consumers and Domestic Clean Power Supplies [see also: Executive Summary] Susan F. Tierney, Ph.D.
Analysis Group
     
January 2008 Transmission Projects at a Glance  Edison Electric Institute
     
December 2006 Competitive Markets and Transmission: Perfect Together Electric Power Supply Association





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