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Witnesses Tell Congress Interconnection, Transmission and Permitting Delays Are Bottlenecks
Summary
Panelists at a House hearing said interconnection queues, permitting complexity and limited transmission planning are delaying generation buildout and that ERCOT’s connect‑and‑manage approach offers lessons for speeding projects into service.
Members of the House Energy Subcommittee heard that projects can stall in interconnection queues for years and that transmission and permitting processes are limiting the nation’s ability to add generation at the pace required by rising demand.
PJM’s Asim Haque said PJM’s generation interconnection queue historically became clogged as it evaluated proliferating, often smaller renewable projects. He described an ongoing multi-year reform effort at PJM and said the operator had cleared about 50 gigawatts through the…
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