Client Alert
| June 19, 2009
DOE Transmission Planning Funding Opportunity
Earlier this week, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the development and strengthening of capabilities in the interconnections serving the lower 48 states of the United States: the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection and the Texas Interconnection. The goal of the FOA is to fund analyses of transmission requirements in order to enhance the development of long-term, interconnection-wide transmission expansion plans. The funding opportunity is focused on regional transmission planning and coordination, rather than on individual projects. However, funding to a regional planning entity – such as an Independent System Operator (ISO) or Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) -- could certainly result in requirements, studies and/or analyses that would support specific projects.
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