Transmission
The NWCC Transmission Workgroup advances the national dialogue on current transmission issues, increasing stakeholder understanding of the obstacles to transmission expansion and integration of wind power, and catalyzing activities to address these obstacles.
The Workgroup aims to balance the issues and concerns of transmission providers and consumers, while providing decision and policy makers with technical information on regional planning, collaboration and coordination, integration, siting, and cost allocation and recovery.
NWCC News
After a three day meeting on March 2-4, the Wind Turbine Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee reached consensus on draft wind turbine guideline recommendations on minimizing the impacts of land-based wind farms on wildlife and habitat. Click the link to read the complete U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service press release.
Over 70 leaders from the transmission, renewables, and wildlife communities met in Washington, DC, on February 22 for the Renewables and Transmission Forum: Transition to a Reduced Carbon Energy Economy, hosted by the NWCC. Participants had the opportunity to engage in a focused dialogue about the inter- and intra-regional opportunities and challenges to integrate renewables on to the grid.
The new Sage Grouse Collaborative will hold its first Steering Committee meeting on February 3-4 in Boulder, CO.