Renewables Advocates Offer Cost-Allocation Reforms As FERC Eyes Rules

Renewable energy advocates are urging federal energy regulators to weigh grid resilience when making cost-allocation decisions about siting new transmission lines while Congress should enact legislation to bolster such regulatory actions, as part of broader reforms to address climate effects on the power sector. “Federal legislation and action by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) can enable the needed investment,” the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) says in a July 22 report , “Transmission Makes the Power System Resilient...