Holistic Transmission Planning
Holistic transmission planning integrates generation expansion, load growth, policy mandates, and grid resilience needs into a unified transmission roadmap. Rather than addressing upgrades project-by-project, planners evaluate multi-decade scenarios, renewable energy zones, and cross-border links to design least-cost portfolios.
Processes include stakeholder task forces, scenario modeling, and benefit-cost metrics that capture decarbonization, resilience, and congestion savings. Holistic plans inform cost allocation decisions and coordinate with interconnection queue reforms.
Regulators increasingly require holistic plans before approving major projects, ensuring transmission investments align with capacity expansion models and electrification forecasts.
Developers monitor planning outputs to prioritize land acquisition and queue submissions in corridors slated for reinforcement.
Technical Details
- •Combines generation, load, and policy scenarios in multi-decade studies
- •Evaluates regional and interregional projects simultaneously
- •Uses benefit metrics such as production cost savings and resilience benefits
- •Feeds into cost allocation, permitting, and financing decisions
- •Aligned with FERC and national planning reforms
Why It Matters
Holistic plans indicate where large transmission investments will occur, guiding renewable siting and capital flows. Tera aggregates planning documents, timelines, and approved projects so stakeholders can anticipate infrastructure buildouts.
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