The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday opened a 60-day public comment on three potential national interest electric transmission corridor designations, known as NIETCs, which would allow the federal government to support and expedite grid expansion projects in those areas.
The three potential NIETCs were chosen from an initial list of 10, published in May. The remaining areas are: the Lake Erie-Canada Corridor, including parts of Lake Erie and Pennsylvania; the Southwestern Grid Connector Corridor, including parts of Colorado, New Mexico, and a “small portion” of western Oklahoma; and the Tribal Energy Access Corridor, including central parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and five Tribal Reservations.
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