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Figure 5-10. Potential Wind Development and Associated Transmission Requirements in Central Great Plains Area Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 56 U.S. Department of Energy / National Electric Transmission Congestion Study / 2006
moderate cost renewable energy to Midwest and Colorado loads. As with wind energy in the Upper Great Plains, development of these domestic energy resources would improve the Nation’s energy security by reducing dependence on imported fuels and reducing the price volatility of electric power. As shown in Figure 5-10, development of these wind resources will require significant investment in new transmission facilities reaching from Nebraska to Oklahoma. This new transmission would also improve reliability in western Kansas and reduce delivered electricity costs for all of western Kansas and Oklahoma. Given that development of these renewable energy resources is consistent with Federal energy policy, promotes national energy security, and would reduce energy costs in several states, the Department believes that electricityrelated developments in this potential congestion area should be tracked closely. Illinois-Indiana and Upper Appalachian Conditional Constraint Areas Development of major amounts of new coal-fired generation in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky would require development of associated new transmission capacity in order to deliver the electricity to load centers. It is not yet clear, however, how much additional transmission capacity might be needed beyond the substantial enhancements now being discussed for the eastern PJM states. Southeastern Conditional Constraint Area There is growing interest in developing a new generation of nuclear power plants in the Nation as sources of low-cost base-load electricity without air emissions. To date most of the applications for new nuclear power plants involve locations in the southeastern United States. (See Figure 5-11.) Any one new nuclear power plant is likely to require interconnection and some system upgrades; a large regional concentration of new nuclear capacity would require regional or inter-regional transmission planning to determine what new transmission facilities would be required to move large amounts of electricity to potential buyers over a wide geographic area. 5.5. Conclusion The Department will monitor developments in all of the above congestion and constraint areas. It will offer assistance and policy support for more detailed transmission analysis and planning, with the expectation that most of these areas are so large that no one entity can or should carry the full burden of determining how to meet these challenges. The Department will document progress in these efforts through annual reports, and it will examine conditions in both Interconnections in aggregate terms in the next congestion study (August 2009). For additional details, see Chapter 7. U.S. Department of Energy / National Electric Transmission Congestion Study / 2006 57
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