FERC Issues Proposal to Overhaul Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
Q. What is electricity transmission?
A. For electricity to get from power plants to users, it needs to travel through wires. “Transmission” and “distribution” refer to the different stages of carrying electricity through wires from power plants to a home or a business. Transmission is the “interstate highway” of electricity delivery and moves electricity over long distances, often on tall towers, so that it reaches areas of demand like cities and towns. In contrast, moving electricity around a city and town on familiar neighborhood utility poles (or sometimes through underground conduits) is referred to as the distribution of electricity. Explainer on the Transmission Notice of Proposed Rulemaking | Feder...
Q. What is FERC’s role in regulating electricity transmission and distribution?
A. In most parts of the United States, FERC is responsible for ensuring that the rates, terms, and conditions that apply to the transmission of electricity in interstate commerce are just, reasonable, and not unduly discriminatory or preferential. Explainer on the Transmission Notice of Proposed Rulemaking | Feder...
Q. Who pays for electric transmission rates?
A. Each electricity customer relies, to some extent, on transmission service over regional transmission facilities to ensure that electricity can reach the distribution system and ultimately be delivered to each customer’s home or business. Therefore, a portion of each customer’s electricity rates reflects some costs for regional transmission facilities. Some electric bills have a specific line item for “transmission charges,” but many do not. Instead, part of the transmission rates approved by FERC for transmission service that a customer’s electric supplier uses are likely included in other portions of the bill, such as energy usage charges.
Eversource and National Grid Complete Major Upgrade to New England’s Electric System
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- $483 million project
- Rights-of-way miles: 75
- States: Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
- Number of towns along the route: 18
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- Number of tubular steel structures: 899
- Total weight of the steel: 18.4 million pounds
- Amount of concrete for structure foundations: 22,446 cubic yards (equivalent to 2,244 mixer truckloads); enough cubic yards to fill a 21-story building more than 50 square feet
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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