Transmission

“California ISO has continued. They've been cranking along quietly for many years. Pretty much they're the only ones who have kind of gone nonstop on transmission.”

“It is important to be realistic about, like, the pace of adoption of basically anything in transmission, especially. It's measured in years or decades. It's not faster than that.”

“If you're working on an IRP, you should be looking at a climate model so that you're not building next generation transmission through an area that might be green and wooded today, but in 15 years we expect to be a high threat wildfire zone.”

“There really wasn't very much for transmission in the Inflation Reduction Act or bipartisan infrastructure law.”

“Some of the things that did not make it into the IRA were an investment tax credit for transmission, which was pulled at the last minute, and that was huge because we desperately need more transmission, and that would have bought down 30% of the capex for it f…”

“I really just don't believe that the market has digested the public acceptance and siting and environmental permitting risks to net zero scale. Renewables and transmission.”

“My biggest fear is that we will hit a, an infrastructure bottleneck for decarbonization of a bunch of other sectors. So again, to the point of like, Think, think of how much renewables we need to build today just to decarbonize the grid. And then add to that t…”