RTO Insider: Future of Transmission Planning and Policy in Focus at Infocast Summit
ELCON CEO Karen Onaran represents traditional industrial customers who also contribute to demand growth, but the hyperscale data centers have demoted her members from large load to “middle load,” she joked. A key policy goal of manufacturers is to keep the price of energy down because that makes their products more competitive.
“Over the past year [to] year-and-a-half, one of my major focuses is going around the country and talking to state-level manufacturers … who have been fighting against transmission for a long, long time and changing that narrative of it to say, ‘Yes, transmission is expensive, but not having transmission is even more expensive,’” Onaran said.