Obstacles to Energy Infrastructure: Interconnecting New Generation
On Monday, October 27, RFF hosted the third webinar in the Obstacles series where panelists discussed the critical need to build more energy infrastructure, policy efforts to facilitate this need, and the remaining obstacles to growing energy infrastructure.
Details
While state and federal policy makers focus on land use restrictions and permitting processes, one barrier to new generation consistently ranks top of mind for developers: the interconnection queue. Careful evaluation ensures potential new generators won’t overburden the grid’s infrastructure, but those careful evaluations take time, and the results sometimes indicate new generators would need to spend significant resources upgrading the grid to accommodate their power supply.
Despite some recent improvements, queues for new generators to connect to the grid remain long and continue to pose a challenge to the speed with which new generators can come online. On Monday, October 27, Resources for the Future (RFF) hosted a webinar entitled “Obstacles to Energy Infrastructure: Interconnecting New Generation”. During this event, researchers and experts came together to discuss the state of interconnection delays, the costs new generators face when trying to join the grid, and policy solutions being implemented or considered to help relieve this bottleneck.
This webinar was the third in the Obstacles to Energy Infrastructure series hosted by RFF, and discussed critical need to build more energy infrastructure more quickly, policy efforts to facilitate this need, and the many remaining obstacles to growing energy infrastructure.
Learn more about RFF’s other Obstacles research on the project webpage.
Speakers
- Sarah Johnston, University of Calgary
- Sarah Toth Kotwis, RMI
- Joe Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Aubrey Johnson, MISO Energy
- Karen Palmer, RFF (Moderator)
