Transmission
GEO’s Utilities Program is involved in transmission issues in Colorado, and in the western region. The Program serves the Colorado Clean Energy Development Authority, and helped with the production of the SB91 report that mapped Colorado’s generation development areas.
In September 2008, the GEO received a $397,700 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, and GEO has added $40,000 of GEO’s Clean Energy Fund for the REDI Project. Following competitive bidding, five contractors have been retained to conduct research, writing, and project management. This Project Team is working with an Advisory Board, and will complete its work by June 30, 2009. The REDI Project is working with renewable energy developers, transmission planners, financiers, regulatory policy experts, and other to develop a set of actions for transmission-owning Colorado electric utilities, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, the Colorado Clean Energy Development Authority, and the Colorado General Assembly to expand Colorado’s high voltage transmission system. The final work product will provide regulatory and utility decision-makers with financing and policy evidence that will propel the integration of a minimum of one gigawatt of renewable energy resources on an upgraded and expanded Colorado high voltage transmission system.
More information on transmission is available using the links in the menu to the right to explore this section.
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