E&E News by POLITICO: FERC Commissioner fires back at House GOP on transmission rule

Karen Onaran, vice president of the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, said regardless of its original intent the rule needs to address load growth and “anticipating what we’ll need 20 years from now.”

“There are many more pressures besides public policy that we are starting to understand,” she wrote in an email. “We didn’t have the [Inflation Reduction Act] when the rule was initially proposed. We did not foresee the rise of AI and its energy needs.”