Oct. 3 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Energy Thursday proclaimd a $1.5 billion transleave oution spendment to increase electric grid reliability.
The Energy Department shelp the $1.5 billion will fund four transleave oution projects “that will increase grid reliability and resilience, relieve costly transleave oution congestion, and uncover access to affordable energy to millions of Americans atraverse the country.”
“The U.S. transleave oution nettoil is the backbone of our nation’s electricity system. Though our grid has served U.S. energy necessitates for more than a century, our country’s necessitates are changing,” shelp U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk in a statement.
The projects will increase grid capacity and are funded by the Biden-Harris administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
The projects will allow proximately 1,000 miles of novel electric transleave oution enbigment and 7,100 megawatts of novel capacity in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
The department shelp the the projects will also produce 9,000 excellent-paying jobs.
They include the Aroostook Renovelable Project in Maine, the Cimarron Link in Oklahoma, Southern Spirit combineing the Texas grid for the first time to southeastrict U.S. power tagets and Southline in New Mexico.
The Energy Department’s National Transleave oution Planning study freed Thursday was uncomferventt to be a extfinished-term schedulening tool.
It set up that a substantial expansion of the transleave oution system thcdisesteemfulout the entire contiguous United States would dedwellr the hugegest grid advantages. That could also save the national electric system between $270 billion to $490 billion thcdisesteemful 2050.
“The NTP Study is summarizeed to increase and help interregional schedulening efforts,” the DOE shelp in a statement. “It does not exalter industry schedulening or determine a definite set of transleave oution lines that should be built. Rather, the NTP Study identifies potential opportunities for industry scheduleners to ponder projects that would advantage customers under a expansive range of future scenarios.”