{"id":143107,"date":"2022-07-29T14:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/boosting-michigans-energy-future-with-regional-transmission-upgrades"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T19:23:13","slug":"boosting-michigans-energy-future-with-regional-transmission-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/boosting-michigans-energy-future-with-regional-transmission-upgrades","title":{"rendered":"Boosting Michigan\u2019s Energy Future with Regional Transmission Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xkXLXBYyjO0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The regional entity overseeing much of the electric power grid in the Midwest \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.misoenergy.org\/\">Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)<\/a> \u2014 approved a set of major new transmission system upgrades that will bring billions of dollars in benefits to the region while better enabling states and utilities to pursue transitions to clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/sam-gomberg\/midwest-transmission-system-investments-will-be-a-game-changer-for-a-clean-energy-future\/\">here<\/a> for my colleague Sam Gomberg\u2019s excellent post explaining the background and details on what is known as \u201cTranche 1\u201d of MISO\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/james-gignac\/why-should-we-care-about-misos-long-range-transmission-planning\/\">long range transmission planning<\/a> process. This much-needed set of 18 projects will improve electricity reliability, address <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2021\/7\/3\/22560691\/power-grid-climate-change-heat-wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overloaded wires<\/a>, and help unlock more lower-cost wind and solar power to replace costly, polluting fossil fuel plants in Michigan and many other states in the Midwest (including <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/meghan-hassett\/overdue-grid-improvements-will-help-illinois-achieve-energy-goals\/\">Illinois<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/meghan-hassett\/building-a-better-power-grid-for-minnesota\/\">Minnesota<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regional entity overseeing much of the electric power grid in the Midwest \u2014 the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) \u2014 approved a set of major new transmission system upgrades that will bring billions of dollars in benefits to the region while better enabling states and utilities to pursue transitions to clean energy. See here [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}