Provides several innovative land-assembly alternatives to the traditional eminent domain model, including land assembly districts, SPDCs, transmission corridor districts, and equity model limited liability corporations.
Reviewed alternate compensation methods for landowners, including damage payments, annual per-pole payments, and collective bargaining through landowner’s associations.
Landowner Compensation in Transmission Siting for Renewable Energy Facilities and From the Ground Up: Addressing Key Community Concerns in Clean Energy Transmission
MISO undertook efforts to coordinate states to build a series of Multi-Value Project (MVP) lines designed to improve grid reliability and transport wind energy throughout the region.
Congress granted consent for three or more contiguous States to enter into an interstate compact, subject to approval by Congress, which would establish a regional transmission siting agencies.
Surveys key actions and policy mechanisms for supporting interstate coordination and cooperation to achieve transmission infrastructure, and includes model language for a state law.
Examines 40 transmission planning studies and draws conclusions about the costs of expanding the transmission grid to accommodate expanded wind energy development.