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Biden Administration Makes Visa Tweaks to Retain Foreign STEM Students

It is well known that backlogs exist in interconnecting renewable projects at most grid operators. One of the reasons for that backlog is the lack of qualified interconnection engineers. As my related post indicates, the grid operators are not hiring enough engineers via the H-1B visa program. With these latest tweaks to student visas in the engineering fields, I hope there will be sufficient interconnection engineers and grid architects to plan the future grid.Â