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Transmission Expansion

AWEA encourages transmission organizations, policy makers, and market participants to develop new transmission facilities.

Documents and Filings:

Summary of Proactive Transmission Policies (pdf)
Legislative Efforts

Senator Thune Bill: Clean Energy Corridors (pdf)
Rep. Inslee Bill: Clean Renewable Energy Zones (pdf)

Frontier Line

AWEA Comments on the Frontier Transmission Line, September 2006. (pdf)

Midwest Wind Development Plan

June 2002.
(pdf)

Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study

RMATS, Final Report. Public Service Commission of Wyoming. September 2004.
Transmission Corridors

AWEA Reccomendations for four corridors, December 2006.

AWEA Reccomendations for four corridors, December 2006

AWEA Filing to DOE on August 2006 Congestion Study:

AWEA Filing on DOE Congestion Study, October 2006

AWEA Filing to DOE on Transmission Corridors:
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 Section 1221 calls for identification of corridors to develop new transmission infrastructure.

AWEA Filing to DOE on Section 1221, March 2006
AWEA corridor maps to DOE on Section 1221

AWEA comments to the Department of Energy (DOE) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Transmission Corridors, November 2005.
(pdf)

Regional transmission corridors Transmission Corridor Map - draft
Cost Allocation

Wind industry comments to Southwest Power Pool (SPP) on transmission cost allocation, September 2004. (pdf)

Transmission Reports of Other Organizations

National Grid. Transmission and Wind Energy. September 2006.

The National Commission on Energy Policy (NCEP). Siting Critical Energy Infrastructure. June 2006.

The Keystone Center. Regional Transmission Projects: Finding Solutions. June 2005.

Consumer Energy Council of America (CECA) Transmission Report: Keeping the Power Flowing. January 2005.

EEI and DOE. U.S. Transmission Capacity: Present Status and Future Prospects. August 2004.

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