Gramlich: IRA includes $760 million for communities hosting transmission lines
Rob Gramlich · Understanding the transmission bottleneck · May 4, 2023 · at 33:45
Rob Gramlich, president of Grid Strategies, discusses policy measures designed to mitigate local opposition to electricity transmission line siting.
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“One little provision we got into the Inflation Reduction Act is this seven hundred sixty million dollar program for kind of local community economic development, sort of hosting you know, benefits for counties or local communities.”
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