Public Interest Standards for Electric System Planning: Earning Consent for New Transmission (Draft Paper, August 2010)
Transmission planning better able to support timely development of a smart, reliable, secure electric grid that facilitates a clean energy economy, enhances national security and prosperity, and aligns electricity supply with environmental sustainability.
Olsen, David. Managing Director, Western Grid Group. Stakeholder Involvement Crucial to Better Plans. Energy Future Coalition-Rockefeller Foundation-Meridian Institute Symposium, Dec. 1, 2009. Comments of Western Grid Group Transmission lines and other large infrastructure projects routinely face multi- year approval schedules. This delay is sometimes occasioned by the fact that the plans presented for approval often…
Hamilton, Roger, Ron Lehr, David Olsen et. al. 2004. “Integrating Wind into Transmission Planning: The Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study.” Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Abstract Plans to expand the western grid are now underway. Bringing power from low-cost remote resources—including wind—to load centers could reduce costs for all consumers. But many paths appear…
Olsen, David. 2005. “Transmission Planning to Connect Large Increments of Wind Power: The Tehachapi Study Group.” Washington, DC: American Wind Energy Association. Abstract The 4,000 MW of high-quality wind resource in the Tehachapi Mountains of east-central California could supply more than half of the new generation necessary to meet the state’s renewable energy law. No…
Olsen, David. 2007. “Renewables-First Generation/Transmission Projects.” Washington, DC: American Wind Energy Association. Abstract: Many policy-makers and generation developers think that, especially in the West and Midwest, renewables cannot be developed on a large scale without coal as a transmission partner. This paper presents a contrary case—that large-scale renewable energy generation projects (“Mega-Projects”) appear able to…
Lehr, R. L.; Nielsen, J.; Andrews, S.; Milligan, M. (2001). Colorado Public Utility Commission’s Xcel Wind Decision. 12 pp.; NREL Report No. CP-500-30551. The paper is posted on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory web site (www.nrel.gov) at: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy01osti/30551.pdf Presented at AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2001 Conference Washington, D.C. June 4-7, 2001 In early 2001 the Colorado Public…
