§18715b Interregional and Offshore Wind Electricity Transmission Planning, Modeling, and Analysis

Summary

The Secretary is given $100,000,000 for fiscal year 2022, from the U.S. Treasury, and the money can be used through September 30, 2031. The funds are for work on interregional electricity transmission and for transmitting electricity from offshore wind. The Secretary must use the money to pay for meetings of relevant stakeholders and to do planning, modeling, and analysis. The work must look at local, regional, and national benefits like economic effects, reliability, resilience, security, public policy, and environment. It must cover topics such as clean energy grid integration (including renewable energy zones), climate-change effects on the grid, cost allocation, generator interconnection and transmission planning, electrification impacts, power flow modeling, stronger links among major grid regions, co-planning of transmission and generation (including storage and demand measures), non‑transmission alternatives and grid‑enhancing tech, community economic opportunities, rights‑of‑way and new corridors, and planning a national networked transmission grid for offshore wind.