< Previous238 MAY 2021 S I T E SE L E C T I ON off that bill (even as many worry who will pay in the end): • $174 billion to “win” the EV market with a combination of charging infrastructure investment, modernization of transit and school vehicles, and incentivize companies to build and expand plants in the EV supply chain; • $115 billion to modernize the bridges, highways, roads, and main streets that are in most critical need of repair; • $111 billion for water and wastewater infrastructure; • $100 billion for broadband infrastructure; • $85 billion to modernize and expand transit; • $80 billion for freight and passenger rail. One plank in particular is attracting closer attention from many: $100 billion to “re-energize America’s power infrastructure,” including investments in the grid that include a “targeted investment tax credit that incentivizes the buildout of at least 20 gigawatts of high-voltage capacity power lines and mobilizes tens of billions in private capital off the sidelines — right away.” In April, a new report — “Transmission Projects Ready to Go: Plugging Into America’s Untapped Renewable Resources” — jumps on that bandwagon with what Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) calls “22 shovel ready, high-voltage transmission projects” that, if constructed, would create more than 1.2 million jobs and lead to 60,000 megawatts (MW) of new renewable energy capacity, increasing American’s wind and solar generation by nearly 50%. “Transmission may be the purest form of ‘infrastructure’ in a modern economy,” said says ACEG Executive Director Rob Gramlich. “The backbone transmission network supports all types of electricity production, and electricity supports every aspect of modern life, including increasingly transportation and all forms of commerce. Transmission is finally in the conversation about infrastructure and for good reason. We do not have a functioning way to recover costs of the large-scale interregional transmission that we need, and it is an appropriate subject for infrastructure legislation. These projects can put people to work in the near term.” Noting that construction on these large projects has stalled, the report recommends the following policy changes: Passage of a transmission investment tax credit; Direct investment in new transmission lines, with the federal government serving as an “anchor tenant” customer; FERC using its authority to reform transmission planning and cost allocation; and Streamlining and expediting the permitting process (a step familiar to corporate site developers worldwide). “Just like the federal Interstate highway system helped drive the growth of the American economy in the last half of the 20th century, an interstate electricity transmission system is needed to power the American economy into the 21st century,” said Michael Goggin, lead author of the report and vice president of Grid Strategies, LLC. “Over 1.2 million jobs can be created by building transmission lines to access untapped renewable resources, bringing sorely needed jobs and economic development to America’s rural areas. A stronger grid is also the best solution for preventing power outages, like the tragic events that affected Texas and other parts of the Central U.S. in February.” “Expanding and upgrading our outdated transmission system, a central tenet of President Biden’s new American Jobs Plan, is an incredible economic opportunity for our nation,” said Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). “With smart transmission policies in place, we can put Americans back to work in good-paying jobs building a more reliable, efficient and carbon-free grid.” To read the 17-page report, visit cleanenergygrid.org. 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