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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: What the FERC Is Going on With the Electric Grid
Description: The nation’s electric grid needs to be expanded and made more reliable for our future energy demands and climate forecasts. The way we’ve built transmission in the past — regionally siloed with short term planning — is now suffering from reliability and capacity issues and won’t work for the next century.The Department of Energy is drafting plans for national transmission corridors to help speed new construction. It’s also handing out funds to build new lines and upgrade existing infrastructure to increase capacity.Meanwhile, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently passed a rule requiring ut...