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Gramlich: Only 55 miles of high-voltage transmission were built in 2023
“There were only 55 miles of new High voltage transmission lines in twenty-twenty-three, which is down, you know, a trickle from the 4000 you know, that had been built 10 years prior”
Gramlich: Four US grid regions are planning 765 kV lines
“You've got seven 65 KV AC plans. We mentioned SPP, but MISO in the more of the, like, the Great Lakes part of the Midwest and is looking at seven 65 PJM as well, and they just came out with a new very much more ambitious plan than we've seen from them. In the …”
Gramlich: US lacks planning system for inter-regional transmission lines
“We don't really have a system in place to build inter-regional transmission from region to region, MISO to SPP, or SPP to the interior west, or interior west to the coast, all of these neighboring regions, there's a massive untapped value of transmission there…”
Gramlich: High-capacity transmission buildout has dropped 90% since 2013
“So for the last decade, there really wasn't much, and kind of now it's dried up to a trickle. Like, we're down in the, you know, couple of hundred miles of high capacity, so less than 10% of what we did a decade ago, and that's kind of where we are.”
Gramlich: US transmission congestion costs doubled from 2020 to 2021
“We just put out a grid strategies report saying it finding it doubled from a 2020 to 20 21, and pretty soon we'll get 20 22 data.”
Gramlich: Grid interconnection times and costs have more than doubled
“Interconnection to the bulk power system used to take one or two years. Now, it's over four years on, on average. So, it's more than doubled in terms of the time frame of processing. And the cost has more than doubled as well. It used to be in the hundred doll…”
Gramlich: US grid queue holds 2 TW, exceeding total existing capacity
“There's about two terawatts of generation in the queue. It's almost all wind, solar, and storage. And there's only about a terawatt and a quarter of generating capacity operating on the grid right now.”
Gramlich: Transmission lines completed in 2024 began 10 to 15 years ago
“These were lines that were, like, begun 10 or 15 years ago that just finally got finished.”
Gramlich: IRA includes $760 million for communities hosting transmission lines
“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.”