Smart Grids

The constraint on electricity in most developed countries is no longer generation, it is the wire and the transformer. Interconnection queues measured in terawatts, substations with multi-year lead times, and data-centre demand arriving faster than anyone planned for have made the grid the binding problem.

This section covers interconnection reform, transmission build-out, capacity markets, and the accreditation rules that decide what a generator is allowed to count for — the unglamorous machinery that determines whether clean capacity ever reaches a customer.