Important Electric Grid Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Energy’s New Report
The Department of Energy (DOE) recently released its first installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) – a comprehensive report examining how the United States can modernize energy infrastructure to promote economic competitiveness, energy security, and environmental responsibility. This installment contains many good findings and recommendations pertaining to electric grid modernization relevant to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
While the QER did not provide the federal agency largely responsible for regulating our country’s backbone electric grid with specific recommendations, it is important that FERC and the regional grid operators it oversees proactively examine how they can support electric grid modernization in coordination with other regulators and stakeholders.
