Understanding the Next Generation of Transmission Planning

 The transmission system is under pressure from multiple directions at once. Demand driven by AI-powered data centers, electrification, and industrial expansion is growing faster than new high-voltage infrastructure can be planned, permitted, and built. Meanwhile, FERC Order 1920 is reshaping what planners are required to model — and legacy tools and workflows were not designed for this environment. 

This webinar explores what next-generation transmission planning looks like in practice: integrated generation and transmission modeling, scenario-based approaches across multiple plausible futures, and how planners can build analysis that holds up to regulatory scrutiny and stakeholder challenge alike.

Key takeaways:

• Transmission capacity is falling behind demand: AI-driven data centers, electrification, and an aging high-voltage grid are creating congestion challenges that existing infrastructure wasn't built to handle. 

• Why legacy planning tools are falling short: Planning frameworks built for gradual, system-wide load growth weren't designed for today's pace or complexity.

• What FERC Order 1920 actually requires and why it matters:  The most significant shift in transmission planning requirements in over a decade, and what it means for ISOs and utilities.

• The case for integrated generation and transmission modeling: When generation, transmission, storage, and gas are modeled together, investment conclusions change considerably.

• Making the case that transmission investment is the pro-affordability position: Scenario-based analysis that quantifies the cost of inaction is what turns a contested project into an approved one.
  

SPEAKERS

Joe Nyangon

VP Solutions - Americas

Energy Exemplar

Rob Homer

Head of Solutions - Government Affairs and Public Policy

Energy Exemplar