Full Title: States in Sync: The Western Win-Win Transmission Opportunity
Author(s): Tyler Farrell and Charles Teplin
Publisher(s): Rocky Mountain Institute
Publication Date: April 24, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
Today, Western states have the chance to make transformative investments that will unlock incredible economic opportunities enabled by new energy. However, to seize this opportunity, states will need to collaborate to expand the region’s electricity transmission system. Unfortunately, status quo planning has been ineffective — over the past 40 years, the region has built almost no regional transmission.
In this report, we show that Western regional transmission expansion is a win-win economic opportunity for all Western states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — and that the most expansive planning leads to the greatest benefits.