Follow-up to report that exposed transmission planning gap calls for large renewable energy customers to participate in planning process and shape the grids future

Large U.S. companies pursuing clean energy goals are procuring renewable energy at a record pace. But as a new report highlights, if large corporate renewable energy consumers want to ensure that they can meet their clean energy goals, they must participate in the transmission planning process.

The newly launched Wind Solar Alliance (WSA) will release a new report, Corporate Renewable Procurement and Transmission Planning: Communicating Demand to RTOs May Yield More Low-Cost Options, at the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA) Summit in Oakland, California on October 15. Advance embargoed copies are available on request.

Corporate Renewable Procurement and Transmission Planning builds on a report that WSA — then known as the Wind Energy Foundation — produced earlier this year, which exposed the scope of the problem. It found that U.S. transmission planning processes are not accounting for big companies large and growing demand for clean, renewable power, which could result in a lack of new infrastructure to supply that demand.

The new report offers specific solutions and steps that corporate purchasers of energy can take, as well as new data on corporations renewable energy procurement to date.

WHAT:
The Wind Solar Alliances new report, Corporate Renewable Procurement and Transmission Planning: Communicating Demand to RTOs May Yield More Low-Cost Options, will be released at a roundtable discussion at the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance Summit in Oakland, California. Advance embargoed copies are available on request. Embargo lifts at 10 pm ET on Sunday, October 14.



WHERE AND WHEN:
The roundtable discussion, Transmission: The Key to Meeting Corporate Renewable Energy Goals, will be held from 2:30pm - 5pm on Monday, Oct. 15, as part of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance Summit being held at the Oakland Convention Center in Oakland, California.

WHO:
Advance interviews are available with:
• John Kostyack, Executive Director of the Wind Solar Alliance
• Kevin ORourke, report author & Director of Public Affairs at the Wind Solar Alliance
Roundtable leaders at the REBA Summit will be:
• Hannah Hunt, report reviewer, American Wind Energy Association
• David Gardiner, David Gardiner & Associates

Please contact Carina Daniels, carina@storyandreach.com or (510) 847-1617, to request an embargoed copy of the report and/or schedule interviews.


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About the Wind Solar Alliance
The Wind Solar Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the transition to renewable energy as a means of strengthening the U.S. economy and reducing the environmental impacts of our energy use. WSA uses research, communications, and advocacy to raise awareness of the benefits of renewable energy and the need for energy and infrastructure policies that recognize and reward those benefits. Visit www.windsolaralliance.org to learn more.