Groups Float Ideas For Bolstering Clean Power Interconnection Processes

Proponents of power grid upgrades, including renewable energy developers, are floating several recommendations for further steps to speed interconnection of new generation ahead of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) workshop next week on the topic. The proposals in an Aug. 27 report from Grid Strategies and the Brattle Group seek to build on FERC’s Order 2023, issued last summer , that aims to ease interconnection delays that disproportionally hamper renewable projects. While that rule implements new requirements to address...