Obstacles to Energy Infrastructure: Interconnecting New Generation
Join RFF for the third webinar in the Obstacles series to continue discussing 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.
Queues for new generators to connect to the grid are getting longer and longer, even as the total amount of new GWs entering the system remains stagnant. In this panel, researchers and practitioners will come 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.
Resources for the Future (RFF) is hosting a series of webinars to discuss the critical need to build more energy infrastructure more quickly, policy efforts to facilitate this need, and the many remaining obstacles to growing energy infrastructure. Join RFF on Monday, October 27th for the third session focused on interconnection.
Speakers
- Sarah Johnston, University of Calgary
- Sarah Toth Kotwis, RMI
- Joseph Rand, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
