Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year,
national electricity grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of
electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate
across regions and harmonize regional electric
grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the
national electricity grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional electric
grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional
grid planning process.
Moving to the highly efficient gas - electric hybrids with a plug - in capacity, combined with the construction of thousands of wind farms
across the country, feeding
electricity into a
national grid, will give us the energy security that has eluded us for decades.