The trouble with a lot of transmission advocacy:
"Federal transmission is pitched as a backstop to build the network that will deliver energy from such private, for-profit renewables projects. These generators aren’t public infrastructure projects that bear commemorative plaques or employ generations of workers, the kind that earns buy-in from locals. Instead, they’re hypothetical agglomerations of faceless, peopleless wind and solar farms that myriad competing private developers created. Local buy-in concentrates in the lucky landowners who will collect annual lease payments and creates bitterness in all their neighbors who lose out."👇
Fred Stafford (@fredstaffordcs)
On Friday @TheBTI posted the first of my new two-part essay on public power and transmission expansion. Part 1 is critique and a highlight of what worked historically with public power. Part 2 puts it together into a proposal. Here’s a 🧵 for the first. 1/ breakthroughjournal.org/p/th…
Link
The Public Power Anchor
Abundance Transmission Without Stealth Deregulation, an Essay in 2 Parts
breakthroughjournal.org
— https://nitter.net/fredstaffordcs/status/2084282235356667985#m