Don't Hold Your Breath

摘要

A major issue within the renewable energy industry cuts to the heart of where renewables will be a decade or two from now. The issue is how to make renewables from the grid available to all utility customers nationwide at a competitive price. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission can intervene in citing only if a state rejects a transmission project within an existing right of way. Recent discussions on Capitol Hill aimed at boosting federal authority to site transmission lines showed the fight will not be based along party lines as much as upon regional differences. Reaching agreement on all this will prove difficult at best. There's no need to hold your breath over this one.