The Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) approved in 2008 guides and supports the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by climate change. One activity pursued by the SFDCC is to further develop and test methods to...

State transmission infrastructure authorities offer a new tool for helping to overcome such obstacles to developing transmission as high capital investment requirements, uncertain cost allocation among multiple parties, and siting and permitting challenges. Yet to be determined is whether they...

Experience from state and regional transmission siting initiatives aimed at expanding renewable energy development might offer lessons on how to circumvent traditional barriers to new transmission. Absent a national approach or federal transmission plan, these early models will provide a...