Academics Float Broad Renewables Plan To Aid Biden’s Climate Goals

A group of lawyers and academics is offering the incoming Biden administration a strategy to significantly boost the amount of renewable energy on the power grid in order to achieve the president-elect’s climate goals, arguing officials can rely on existing authorities and streamlined reviews to deploy sufficient long-distance transmission lines. “New long-distance, high-voltage transmission lines will be vital if the United States is to deploy enough renewable generation capacity to decarbonize the power sector and to integrate it cost-effectively,” says...