The Biden administration and FERC made moves in recent weeks to revamp the nation’s electricity transmission system, taking steps toward achieving a carbon-free energy grid by 2035 while addressing the impending infrastructure issues.

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During the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s third joint federal-state electric transmission task force, the five commissioners underscored that there is a great deal of transmission needs across the nation’s regional grids. 

Projects with more than 1 TW, or one trillion watts, of generator capacity, in addition to 420 GW of storage, are seeking connection to the grid. There is an ever-expanding backlog for interconnection projects. However,  23% requesting interconnection from 2000 to 2016 reached commercial operations, according to...