More big corporations are looking to meet up to 100% renewable energy goals, but antiquated grid operator planning has delayed construction of transmission infrastructure that is putting the targets at risk.
“Transmission planning fails to account for the rapid increase in corporate and other institutional demand,” says a Wind Energy Foundation report, published this month, on the large customer demand for renewable energy. Under the 20th-century model for transmission planning, experts focus on electric reliability, not the need to transmit renewable power, according to the report.