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Jim Rossi is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School.
America’s electric grid is straining under aging transmission infrastructure, surging new generation and an explosion of demand from electricity-hungry data centers and heavy manufacturing.
In April, incumbent utilities in MISO and SPP seized on that strain to make a remarkable ask. A coalition calling itself the Grid Acceleration Coalition — ITC, Ameren, American Transmission Company (ATC), Entergy, Evergy, Xcel and others — asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to suspend competitive bidding for transmission projects across grid operators MISO and SPP for five years, or to let utilities bypass it project by project. It claims competitive solicitations add 16 to 20 months of delay that America cannot afford.
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