How do we build a more reliable grid? Better planning, per a new report from the Clean Air Task Force. (Latitude Media)
The report outlines five ways to relieve grid strain: smarter transmission upgrades, co-locating big loads like data centers with generation, expanding energy efficiency, reforming interconnection, and improving cross-state power flow.
Big picture: It’s a rebuttal to DOE’s recent report, which leans on keeping coal plants alive. CATF says the feds are underestimating the role batteries, renewables, and modern grid tech can play in the short term and overestimating how fast fossil projects can come online.