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As if the “National Transmission Planning Study” wasn’t enough:

First, that National Transmission Planning Study, starting with some maps to catch your interest. As with tariffs, who do you think will be paying for all this?

• Executive Summary describes the high-level findings from across all six chapters and next steps for how to build on the analysis.
• Chapter 1: Introduction provides background and context about the technical design of the study and modeling framework, introduces the scenario framework, and acknowledges those who contributed to the study.
• Chapter 2: Long-Term U.S. Transmission Planning Scenarios discusses the methods for capacity expansion and resource adequacy, key findings from the scenario analysis and economic analysis, and High Opportunity Transmission interface analysis.
• Chapter 3: Transmission Portfolios and Operations for 2035 Scenarios summarizes the methods for translating zonal scenarios to nodal-network-level models, network transmission plans for a subset of the scenarios, and key findings from transmission planning and production cost modeling for the contiguous United States.
• Chapter 4: AC Power Flow Analysis for 2035 Scenarios identifies the methods for translating from zonal and nodal production cost models to alternating current (AC) power flow models and describes contingency analysis for a subset of scenarios.
• Chapter 5: Stress Analysis for 2035 Scenarios outlines how the future transmission expansions perform under stress tests.
• Chapter 6: Conclusions describes the high-level findings and study limitations across the six chapters.

And then, just released, adding insult to injury:

In this rush to build whatever utilities want for market share and al those economic benefits that MISO/MEMBERS will reap, MISO is incubating “Tranche 2.1” which includes a “transmission superhighway” across Minnesota:

LRTP Tranche 2.1 Portfolio Update

Watching all this happening is so discouraging, and watching our so-called regulators spurring this on, disgusting.