§18715b Interregional and offshore wind electricity transmission planning, modeling, and analysis

Summary

Provides $100,000,000 from the U.S. Treasury for fiscal year 2022, to stay available through September 30, 2031. The Secretary must use the money to pay for meetings with relevant stakeholders and to do planning, modeling, and analysis about transmission that crosses regions and electricity made by offshore wind. The work must look at local, regional, and national benefits, such as economic, reliability, resilience, security, policy, and environmental effects. Topics include clean energy integration and renewable zones; how climate-driven weather changes affect the grid; cost-sharing for big grid upgrades; coordinating interconnection and transmission planning; effects of more electrification; power flow modeling; links among the Western Interconnection, the Eastern Interconnection, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas; joint planning of transmission and generation (including variable resources, storage, and demand management); non‑transmission alternatives and grid-enhancing tech; economic opportunities for communities; existing rights-of-way and new transmission corridors; and planning a national transmission network to connect offshore wind.