ACORE Welcomes NARUC Resolution Supporting the Integration of Advanced Transmission Technologies

November 13, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) approved a resolution today recognizing the importance of Advanced Transmission Technologies (ATTs) — such as Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) and High-Performance Conductors (HPCs) — to ensuring affordable, reliable electricity. As the resolution states, these are “affordable, innovative technological solutions to reduce costs by unlocking critical transmission capacity in the near term.” The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) strongly agrees with NARUC’s expressed support for federal funds to aid utilities, regional grid operators, and states in the deployment of these technologies, including through the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program under the U.S. Department of Energy’s Grid Deployment Office. To date, 29 states have benefitted from federal grants that include GETs and HPCs.

Following is a statement from Elise Caplan, ACORE’s Vice President, Regulatory Affairs:

“There are many polarizing issues facing our country today – but deploying smart transmission technologies to cost-effectively strengthen the nation’s grid is not among them. NARUC’s bipartisan support of ATTs is a testament to the critical need for policymakers and grid operators to closely consider the benefits GETs and HPCs can deliver across the country. ATTs have a crucial role to play in helping America meet increasing power demand from new and growing industries while ensuring all consumers can access reliable, affordable electricity. Deploying these technologies on the existing system will add transmission capacity and ensure the grid operates more efficiently. Simultaneously, the U.S. must continue to plan, permit, and build the regional and interregional transmission lines needed to enable low-cost power and strengthen the system against extreme weather and other threats for decades to come.

“We commend NARUC for passing a resolution today recognizing the well-demonstrated benefits of these technologies and calling for sufficient federal funding to accelerate their adoption. We hope to see the federal government build on NARUC’s leadership to ensure these near-term grid solutions receive the support necessary to continue their momentum.”

About ACORE:
For over 20 years, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) has been the nation’s leading voice on the issues most essential to renewable energy expansion. ACORE unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. For more information, please visit www.acore.org.

Media Contacts:
Alex Hobson
Sr. Vice President, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
hobson@acore.org | 202.830.3592 (o) | 202.594.0706 (c)

Dylan Helms
Manager, Communications
American Council on Renewable Energy
helms@acore.org | 202.935.6491 (o) | 727.290.8804 (c)

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Homeschooling

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Alice Rush

Decent and intelligent people respect the rights of parents to homeschool their children, but there are two reasons for concern: a) socialization, failure to expose children to their peers, so that they may make friends and come to understand the norms of society, and b) the quality of the education itself.

Almost all homeschooling in the United States is conducted on the basis of a radical rightwing viewpoint, normally a blend of evangelical Christianity and Trumpism.

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Yes, that’s the theme of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” but it’s also the core of the 1995 film “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” in which a music teacher who deemed that his life had been a failure because he never completed writing a great symphony, is gently and beautifully corrected. Please see below.

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Alice Rush

In the early days of 2GreenEnergy, my people and I were vigorously engaged in finding solid ideas in cleantech that needed funding in order to move forward.

I vividly remember a conversation with a guy in Maryland who was trying to explain the (ostensible) breakthrough that he and his team had made in hydrokinetics. When I was having trouble visualizing what we was talking about, he asked me to “think of it as a river in a box.”

“Oh!” I exclaimed. “You mean you take a box full of standing water, add energy to it get it moving, then extract that energy, leaving you with more energy that you added to it.”

“Exactly.”

I politely explained that the laws of physics, specifically the first and second laws of thermodynamics, make this impossible.

He wasn’t through, however, and insisted that, in his office, his people had constructed a “working model.”

Here’s where my tone descended into something less than 100% polite. I told him that he may think he has a working model, but he’s wrong; if he believes this, he’s ignorant; if he doesn’t, but is conducting this conversation anyway, he’s a fraud.

“But don’t you want to come see it?” he implored.

“No. Not only would not fly across the country to see whatever it is you claim to have built, I wouldn’t walk across the street to a “working model” of something that is theoretically impossible.”

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I tell this story because the claim made at the upper left is essentially identical. You’re pumping water up out of a stream, and then claiming to extract more energy when the water flows back into the stream.

Of course, social media today is rife with complete crap like this. We’ve devolved to a point where defrauding money out of idiots is rapidly replacing baseball as our national pastime.