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FERC has a new plan to connect clean energy to the grid more quickly

Canary Media · Jeff St. John

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday unveiled a new plan to speed up and streamline what’s become a slow and expensive process of connecting new solar, wind and battery projects to U.S. transmission grids. 

Years-long waiting times and potentially project-killing grid-upgrade costs are preventing hundreds of gigawatts’ worth of clean energy projects from being connected to U.S. power grids. These snarled-up interconnection processes are threatening to drive up energy prices and reduce grid reliability, and have become major barriers to building the carbon-free resources needed to forestall the most catastrophic harms of climate change.

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