Volts subscribers are used to hearing about how difficult it is to build new long-distance power transmission lines in the US. But one of the nation's largest wholesale energy markets, MISO, just put out a roadmap to almost 2,000 miles of new transmission. What went right? I talked with a longtime industry lawyer.
Slightly off topic, but I just got an email from the National Wildlife Federation urging me to support the FERC's efforts to improve transmission planning. For the penguins! It's all coming together.
While listening to Lauren Azar, she said that , with the MISO transmission lines, there would be 50GW of renewable power already there to tap into. I assume that this is mainly wind power. I recently looked at the 2021 DOE Solar Futures Study, pg. 32 (shorter version), which stated that by 2035, there could be 70 - 140GW of Solar per State in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The USA uses about 2,200GW of power capacity each year. These states would add to the solar power from the West and South (with, say, Florida and Virginia having 280GW or greater - each with Electrification.
Slightly off topic, but I just got an email from the National Wildlife Federation urging me to support the FERC's efforts to improve transmission planning. For the penguins! It's all coming together.
After checking, the USA uses 1,200GW of power/year.
While listening to Lauren Azar, she said that , with the MISO transmission lines, there would be 50GW of renewable power already there to tap into. I assume that this is mainly wind power. I recently looked at the 2021 DOE Solar Futures Study, pg. 32 (shorter version), which stated that by 2035, there could be 70 - 140GW of Solar per State in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The USA uses about 2,200GW of power capacity each year. These states would add to the solar power from the West and South (with, say, Florida and Virginia having 280GW or greater - each with Electrification.