Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies
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CEERT Reports
TRANSMISSION IN 2024
CEERT’s Review of the Challenges Ahead
GridLAB & CEERT
May 2024
The Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) continues to prioritize its engagement in California’s transmission planning, interconnection, and permitting processes. Last year we released three reports focused on the need for substantial expansion of the high voltage transmission system and on the need for major reforms to transmission permitting at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). This report focuses on more recent California Independent System Operator (CAISO) planning activities, including the issuance of a draft 2023-2024 Transmission Plan, the finalization of the interconnection process enhancement initiative, and the preparation for studies in the upcoming 2024-2025 Transmission Plan.
This report also evaluates ongoing efforts of the Legislature and the CPUC to address transmission permitting reform following up on last year’s activities.1 The backlog of policy driven and reliability-driven transmission projects that need to commence construction is continuing to grow with the expected addition of 26 new projects in the 2023-2024 Transmission Plan, which will bring the total number of transmission projects that have been approved over the past three transmission plans to 94. Delays in transmission development will jeopardize California’s necessary transition to a zero-carbon economy. In particular, permitting reform is urgently needed in order to expand and modernize California’s electric system and strengthen linkages to the rest of the Western grid.
July 28, 2014 PPIC statewide survey: Californians and the environment - (pdf)
May 15, 2014 CEERT Quarterly Staff Report January – April 2014 - (pdf)
February 21, 2014 Sierra Club BOD honors John Howard Zierold - (pdf)
February 6, 2014 CEERT Quarterly Staff Report September-December 2013 - (pdf)
March 31, 2013 2011 Annual Report - (pdf)
August 30, 2013 Preliminary Reliability Plan for LA Basin and San Diego - (pdf)
June 25, 2013 The President's Climate Action Plan - (pdf)
May 23, 2013 Global Renewable Energy Market Outlook 2013 - (pdf)
February 27, 2013 The New Energy ROI: Resilience, Optionality, Intelligence - (pdf)
July 13, 2012 Energy Roundtable Discussion: Infrastructure Planning, Cost & Market Implications of the DRECP - (pdf)
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