Interconnection Process
topic on 1 show · 3 statements across 1 episodes
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Norris: Proactive transmission planning matters even more than interconnection queue reform
“The biggest Additional piece is improving the proactive transmission planning process and not relying as much on the interconnection process.”
Norris: Proactive transmission grid upgrades save ratepayers money over queue-driven ones
“We're, what we're seeing more and more is that, ah, it will save rate payers money if we pursue these upgrades via separate proactive process, and that's for a couple reasons. One is, you don't have to go back incrementally and continue upgrading the system in…”
Norris: ERCOT decouples grid upgrades from interconnection to speed up projects
“The defining feature of ERCOT's interconnection process is that they don't rely on the interconnection process itself to identify and pay for grid upgrades. And this enables them to interconnect projects much more quickly and at much lower cost.”