ESIG - U.S. Department of Energy`s National Transmission Planning Study Results



Webinar Abstract: The U.S. Department of Energy recently released the National Transmission Planning (NTP) Study, a set of long-term planning tools and analyses that examine a wide range of potential future scenarios through 2050 to identify pathways to maintain grid reliability, increase resilience, and reduce costs, while meeting local, regional, interregional, and national interests and supporting the changing energy landscape. This webinar will give an overview of the study which finds that the United States will need to approximately double to triple the 2020 transmission capacity by 2050 to meet demand growth and reliability needs, and hundreds of billions of dollars of cost savings can be achieved through substantial transmission expansion and interregional planning.