As our buildings and transportation become progressively electrified and new energy intensive facilities come online, states must engage in robust planning to ensure this load growth is supplied by clean energy. Our transmission grid today is aging and fragmented, but states have a variety of policy tools at their disposal to plan for a clean, reliable, and affordable energy future. These tools include the creation of transmission authorities, which are state entities dedicated to facilitating the planning, financing, and stakeholder engagement of transmission infrastructure deployment, and the development of energy resource zones, which are strategic locations where energy resources like wind or solar are abundant and key infrastructure investments could connect them to the grid.

We’ve convened a panel of experts to explore how states are using transmission authorities and energy resource zones to ensure clean energy resources can connect to the grid and deliver reliable, affordable energy. Our speakers include:

• Cathy Boies, Director at Gridworks
• Abby Watson, Co-Founder and President of The Groundwire Group