Utility Dive: Has FERC’s landmark transmission planning effort made transmission building harder?

July 17 — Order 1000 was issued in July 2011, a result of concerns about emerging demands on the nation’s aging power infrastructure. Load flattened after the 2008 economic recession, but by 2011, it was clear transmission was inadequate to serve the renewables generation beginning to replace outdated fossil fuel-burning power plants.

— Utility Dive