“Though windmills and solar panels get the headlines, the big energy topic in Washington is electric transmission. Whether it is Congress’s newfound interest in permitting reform, the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Grid Deployment Office, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) upcoming final rule on transmission planning and cost allocation, how to build and pay for long-range transmission to connect generators to customers is considered the final piece in the quest to meet net-zero goals.” Australia like America we have billions of hidden costs not being included by the CSIRO renewables versus nuclear report. Lift the bans Albanese and enable small land footprint nuclear that can use existing coal and diesel sites and interconnectors with reactors that last more than 60 years and don’t blight our land scape and kill our wildlife.
Recent FERC commissioner writes "With public concerns about costs, transmission advocates now argue that more transmission is needed for grid reliability. Yet, the threat of blackouts is the result of the very net-zero policies that now require more transmission. ... New technology, such as small modular nuclear reactors that can be built at existing power plants that already have transmission access, may negate the need for new transmission lines to serve renewable generators." https://lnkd.in/d64J8Du6