The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) may consider a grid system that sources locally produced energy for regions, otherwise known as energysheds, as indicated by its latest request for information (RFI). 

Unlike an energyshed, the current energy transmission system can carry voltage produced at a power plant to its final destination over about 300 miles. Many cities are powered by energy sourced from a different state.

The energyshed proposal can be utilized to hasten the Biden Administration’s mission toward  a carbon-free electricity sector by 2035 and to “transition America to a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy by 2050. It all starts with grid resource planning,” said DOE Assistant Secretary Kelly Speakes-Backman of the Office of Energy Efficiency and...