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Call-In News Conference Will Offer Insight on Federal Policies to Encourage Investment in Green Power Superhighway, Renewable Energy Development
Transmission is the largest single barrier to significant wind energy expansion and the achievement of a national renewable electricity standard (RES). As Congress debates whether to enact a national RES, upgrading the nation’s outdated transmission system is emerging as another key component of our energy future. Gramlich and Furman will explain why the U.S. needs a high-voltage, interstate green power superhighway to deliver clean, renewable electricity to the consumers who need it. A successful RES will require this critical infrastructure upgrade, which will also make more efficient use of our existing transmission capacity, reduce the logjam in interconnection queues, and expand transmission capacity. A national, high-capacity transmission network, combined with a national RES could bring tremendous economic benefits to Kansas, in the form of jobs, increased manufacturing investment, and clean, affordable wind energy as a new export product for the state. To view AWEA’s white paper on transmission, Green Power Superhighways: Building a Path to America’s Clean Energy Future, visit http://www.awea.org/GreenPowerSuperhighways.pdf. For more about AWEA’s Transmission Workshop, visit http://www.awea.org/events/transmission09.
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