Western Transmission Expansion Coalition (WestTEC)
NERC’s 2025 budget is set to rise 8.2% over the previous year to $123 million.
The Western Interconnection will need about 15,600 additional new line miles of high-voltage transmission at a cost of about $75 billion over the next 20 years to meet the anticipated increase in load growth, according to a report commissioned by Gridworks and GridLab.
The Western Transmission Expansion Coalition’s transmission planning study is getting a boost from a $1.75 million Department of Energy grant, even as the cost of the project has grown to $6.1 million.
Western Power Pool has announced the 24 members of a stakeholder group that will participate in the West-wide transmission planning effort.
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