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The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) and WIRES (Working group for Investment in Reliable and Economic electric Systems) are hosting a briefing on a major challenge facing the modernization of our nation's high voltage grid: cost allocation. Regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and individual utilities in bilateral markets are devising various methods of allocating grid expansion and upgrade costs in light of local political, regulatory, and grid operational realities. If methodologies vary widely in their objectives and results, how will federal regulators apply the requirements of the Federal Power Act to them? This briefing will explore the basic concepts of cost allocation, why the issue is critical to the future of the grid, and what needs to be resolved by the Congress, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and other stakeholders to reduce the regulatory uncertainty about who will pay for the coming build-out.

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