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Witnesses warn of unchecked supplemental transmission spending and urge oversight
Summary
Trade groups and energy counsel urged the House Energy Committee to close a regulatory gap that allows utilities' transmission affiliates to build supplemental projects with limited oversight, a practice witnesses said is driving rapid increases in transmission charges for large users.
Witnesses at the House Energy Committee hearing told lawmakers that supplemental transmission projects — often built at 69 kilovolts — have escaped thorough regulatory review and are driving large increases in transmission charges passed to customers.
David Perwanyo, regulatory counsel for the Ohio Energy Leadership Council, said the “regulatory gap” lets transmission-affiliate projects bypass the more rigorous PJM regional review and the Ohio Power Siting Board. Perwanyo told the committee that in 2022 AEP Ohio filed far more supplemental…
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