‎"One-Stop-Shopping" For State Transmission Siting Approvals?‎

This month, the Energy Foundation and Energy Innovation Policy and Technology LLP released ‎‎"America's Power Plan," a report consisting of a series of white papers providing policy ‎recommendations which the authors describe as intended to "help the United States manage the ‎transition to a cleaner, healthier and safer energy future." The report is the result of a collaborative ‎effort among numerous representatives from the utility, industrial, regulatory, academic, and NGO ‎sectors and, since its release, has generated significant "buzz" in the public debate regarding national ‎energy policy or the arguable lack thereof. "America's Power Plan" includes policy recommendations ‎related to power markets, utility business models, financial risk management, distributed energy, and ‎transmission investment and siting. While all of these topics are necessary components of the national ‎energy discussion, the report's recommendations concerning electric