2021 PES ISGT NA 2/18 Panel Video: Competitive Transmission Planning: From Constructability to Success

Through the recent global survey by IEEE, Infrastructure Planning is the most reported business strategy of smart grid technology implementations, with its nature of high capital cost and long term impact in the power grids. Under FERC Order 1000, the US power industry is implementing competitive planning process throughout the industry to achieve high economical solutions with technical advances. Through the first group of awarded competitive planning projects, RTOs, incumbent Transmission Owners and designated entities have been working together to explore the process of introducing competitiveness into the infrastructure planning business, identify the optimized solution with sound economic advantages, utilize the advanced technologies, as well as collaboratively work with regulatory agencies and stakeholders at large through constructability analysis to implementation. This panel will be the first IEEE PES panel to review the successes of competitive planning projects by the planners and project managers.