Transmission Planning Through a Consumer Lens

Featuring

[Moderator] Kent Chandler, Resident Senior Fellow, Energy and Environmental Policy, R Street Institute

[Moderator] Jennifer Chen, Principal, ReGrid

Susan Bruce, Member, McNees Wallace and Nurick, LLC

Chris Parker, Director, Utah Division of Public Utilities

Greg Poulos, Executive Director, Consumer Advocates of the PJM States, Inc.

Overview

While monopoly utilities spend tens of billions of dollars on transmission capital expenditures each year, they don’t necessarily fund toward efficient, cost-effective, or policy-compliant resources and infrastructure. As a result, transmission costs have increased dramatically for consumers over the past decade—even as reliability issues persist and terawatts of efficient, new generation languish in interconnection queues. Well-planned transmission projects that leverage advanced transmission technologies could reduce costs and integrate new generation; however, many barriers prevent these projects from coming online. 

Join R Street and a panel of advocates and consumers for a discussion on transmission planning and strategies to make transmission more effective and market-driven.