Require transmission planners to optimize the existing transmission system, including through grid-enhancing technologies.

Optimize the existing transmission system, including through grid-enhancing technologies;

The bill would require transmission planning regions to optimize the existing transmission system and consider grid-enhancing technologies.

Casten Introduces Bill to Expand Benefits of Local Transmission Lines | U.S. Congressman Sean Casten
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“(1) C OMMON SELECTION METHODOLOGY.—A methodology that— “(A) allows for the joint identification and selection, by any immediately adjacent Transmission Planning Region, of specific regional transmission facilities, interregional transmission facilities, and covered local transmission facilities for construction or modification, including through the use of advanced transmission conductors (including superconductors), reconductoring, and grid-enhancing technologies;

The bill would require joint transmission plans to include a methodology for selecting transmission facilities for construction or modification, including through advanced conductors, reconductoring, and grid-enhancing technologies.

H. R. 10539 (Introduced-in-House)
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