Matters addressed at the meeting may include issues raised in proceedings that are currently pending before the FERC. These proceedings include but are not limited to:

The collaboration assembles a group with diverse views and scopes of experience that will consider the benefits of electricity transmission while ensuring that costs are allocated efficiently and fairly. More specifically, the task force aims to:

• recognize barriers that inhibit planning and development of optimal transmission necessary to achieve federal and state policy goals, as well as potential solutions to those barriers
• examine potential bases for one or more states to use FERC-jurisdictional transmission planning processes to advance their policy goals, including multi-state goals
• review opportunities for states to voluntarily coordinate to identify, plan, and develop regional transmission solutions
• assess FERC rules and regulations regarding planning and cost allocation of transmission projects and potentially identify recommendations for reforms
• analyze hindrances to the efficient and expeditious interconnection of new resources through the FERC-jurisdictional interconnection processes, as well as potential solutions to those barriersdiscuss mechanisms to ensure that transmission investment is cost effective, including approaches to enhance transparency and improve oversight of transmission investment including, potentially, through enhanced federal-state coordination

The Task Force meetings will be free for the public to attend, and registration is not required. Interested parties will be provided the opportunity to submit comments related to each meeting’s topics.

The first meeting will be held on November 10th from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST. This meeting is open to attend in person at the Omni Louisville Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky but will be widely available to the public via webcast. Instructions on how to join the webcast are forthcoming and will be posted on the Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission webpage.

For more details on this meeting, including the agenda, visit the event’s webpage. For general questions related to the Task Force, contact Gretchen Kershaw, (202) 502-8213 (gretchen.kershaw@ferc.gov) or Jennifer Murphy, (202) 898-1350 (jmurphy@naruc.org).