Hiring: Grid Strategies Chief Operating Officer/VP of Power Sector Analysis

by Julia | Jun 4, 2024

Chief Operating Officer (COO) and VP of Power Sector Analysis Posted June 2024 The COO/VP will play a crucial role in overseeing strategy, operations, and analysis. Guide firm business strategy: Evaluate business growth opportunities and develop overall strategy and...

Note on the Use of Congestion Rents to Approximate Societal Costs of Transmission Congestion

by Kimberly Nelson | Apr 20, 2023

Our report Transmission Congestion Costs in the U.S. RTOs relies on congestion rents because that metric is reported by Regional Transmission Organization market monitors, and we believe it is a good approximation of societal congestion costs because the short-term...

Transmission Benefits All Users of the Power Grid

by Kimberly Nelson | Oct 11, 2022

Transmission Benefits All Users of the Power Grid A large share of transmission’s benefits are unrelated to expanding use of renewable resources. For example, one of the largest benefits of transmission is that it aggregates diverse sources of electricity demand,...

Fewer New Miles: The US Transmission Grid in the 2010s

by Kimberly Nelson | Aug 16, 2022

Download the PDF of this memo. Construction of new high-voltage transmission lines significantly slowed in the United States over the last dozen years, according to data from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s monthly Energy Infrastructure Updates....

Grid Strategies is hiring

by Kimberly Nelson | Aug 1, 2022

 Actively hiring: Chief Operating Officer/VP of Power Sector Analysis All other roles are evaluated on a rolling basis. About Grid Strategies: Grid Strategies LLC is a power sector consulting firm helping clients understand the opportunities and barriers to...