Some congressional Democrats are urging federal energy regulators to promote grid upgrades as a way to meet the country’s surging electricity demand.
In a letter shared with E&E News — and sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Wednesday — the four lawmakers write that “a lack of transmission capacity is preventing new clean energy supply from coming online.”
The letter — led by Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) — argues that grid-enhancing technologies, or GETs, could help squeeze more renewable power through existing power lines.
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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Reps. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) joined Welch, who chairs the Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy.
