There’s been a lot of loose talk about politics, feasibility, and competency, but very little about financing, program design, and logistics. In this post we’ll dive into those admittedly knottier topics to elucidate what we’ve concluded some pundits are missing about public development in the United States. And we’ll make the case for why some…
This holism is a way of thinking about energy policy that takes an holistic view of the electric grid as both the network of transmission and distribution lines knitted together by substations, but also the sources and sinks of the electrons. To get the decarbonized energy future we desire we need to adopt a Grid…
Future efforts toward permitting reform should focus on the transmission infrastructure buildout that is needed for decarbonization of the electrical grid. A study by Princeton’s Net-Zero Lab finds that 80 percent of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) emissions reduction benefits would be lost if the growth rate of transmission capacity remains at its recent diminished…