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Reinventing the Right of Way: Policy, Technical, and Economic Implications of Siting Transmission Lines Along Transportation Corridors: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Reinventing the Right of Way: Policy, Technical, and Economic Implications of Siting Transmission Lines Along Transportation Corridors: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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hosted the workshop on Reinventing the Right of Way: Sturgill drew a parallel between today's challenges and Policy, Technical, and Economic Implications of Siting the establishment of the interstate highway system in Transmission Lines Along Transportation Corridors on the mid-20th century, noting that, in addition to offerApril 7–9, 2025. The workshop convened stakeholders ing a conceptual example of the country's capacity to in the planning, operations, ownership, use, and regu- successfully deploy large-scale infrastructure projects, lation of transmission projects and transportation ROWs the nation's highways lay the groundwork for future to establish a shared understanding of the issues and grid expansion in a physical sense, as well.
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Plans lenge of acquiring new land for utility and transportation are made and enacted by different authorities, with DOTs projects. Co-locating transmission lines within existing providing oversight throughout the process for highways transportation corridors could speed transmission project and a constellation of different authorities playing a role timelines, avoid opposition, and even enable otherwise in transmission planning.
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gaps in the policy and regulatory structures regarding Electric Power System Perspectives who pays for transmission lines across states. These barSpeakers described key drivers and challenges the electric riers -- collectively referred to as the "3 Ps" of planning, power industry faces in expanding transmission infra- permitting, and paying -- are substantial, but Gramlich structure.
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Others with an interest for public transportation needs, but they also have in grid infrastructure include consumers, non-govern- the authority to accommodate utilities within their mental organizations, independent power producers, the ROWs according to Federal and state policies. Speakers clean energy industry, and those who develop and build described engineering, logistics, policy, and other issues transmission infrastructure.
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In the lighted considerations around the impacts of construc1990s, these rules were loosened, and utility companies tion and maintenance of the electric infrastructure on the began requesting the use of highway ROWs for telecom- operations and maintenance of the roadway, and Fasick munications and other infrastructure. This eventually added that co-location can create many issues around expanded into a push to allow longitudinal accommo- access and safety, driver distractions, induced voltage, dation of electric transmission lines, and new rules were and grounding issues.
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Railways represent another extensive network of trans- Romanosky noted that railway ROWs exist in a wide portation corridors across the United States that provide variety of ownership structures, which affects the types opportunities for co-locating transmission lines within of contracts railways can make for utility accommodaexisting ROWs. Speaking to considerations around utility tions in their ROWs.
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. Substations are the nodes transmission corridors, to issue revenue bonds to finance in the network where high-voltage electricity carried by transmission projects, and to use eminent domain to transmission lines from energy generation sources is acquire transmission ROWs.
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prohibitions on the co-location of transmission lines in Fletcher said that considering the use of transportation interstate highway ROWs are a key barrier. Galbraith said ROWs for electric transmission infrastructure can create that removing such prohibitions would allow planners to greater flexibility and speed implementation.
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Each has different planning processes, also be variation in culture and business models among which have historically not heavily emphasized the con- different RTOs, further complicating collaboration. Oversideration of rail ROWs for transmission infrastructure, all, participants said that transmission planners would AUGUST 2025 | 9
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Kelly explained how The Ray has sought to address this data gap and facilitate projects through a partnership The actions suggested by individual participants in the with ESRI to develop ROW suitability mapping tools for breakout session were grouped into 10 main ideas, which both overhead and underground transmission lines. attendees ranked in descending order of priority as These tools incorporate available data on topography, follows: vegetation, existing infrastructure, future transportation 1.
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To bring be a viable option that will ultimately benefit the pub- the ideas generated at the workshop to fruition, Sturgill lic, who are both the taxpayers who support the nation's noted that grand, holistic plans may be the ideal but there highways and the ratepayers who purchase electricity. are things every stakeholder can do now to move the ball There was a great deal of overlap in the ideas presented forward within their own organization, stating: "It can be by those from the transportation and transmission sec- a very small task that could have a very big impact." FIGURE 1 Ten suggestions for action for facilitating transmission co-location along transportation ROWs, rated according to impact and effort.
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2025. Reinventing the Right of Way: Policy, Technical, and Economic Implications of Siting Transmission Lines Along Transportation Corridors: Proceedings of a Workshop -- in Brief.
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