Win-wins are key to securing interregional transmission buy-in: experts

Cost allocation for these projects is “one of the hardest things to agree on, if not the hardest,” said Anya Poplavska, a senior policy advocate at the Acadia Center. “I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that this is a huge limitation and reason that interregional projects just don’t get pursued as much.”

Poplavska noted that there are opportunities for more regional collaboration between the Northeastern states and Canada, thanks not only to geography but also to mutually ambitious carbon-reduction goals. In July, Nova Scotia designated four offshore areas for future offshore wind development, and it’s exploring the idea of exporting some of that power to New England, CBC News reported. The move comes as President Donald Trump is working to limit U.S. offshore wind development.

“Given what’s going on at the federal level with us right now … Obviously, that’s massive,” Poplavska said. “We need to take advantage of the opportunities that we have cross-border in light of domestic limitations.”

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