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"California has made tremendous progress in permitting renewable projects, and now we need to make sure the transmission lines that deliver this clean energy are built as quickly as possible," said Governor Brown. "Putting these construction projects on a fast track will put people back to work and keep California a leader in renewable energy."
- Gov. Jerry Brown, January 2012
"As population grows and electricity supply portfolios change, new transmission facilities will be needed to maintain system reliability and deliver electricity - including increasing amounts of renewable energy - to consumers."
- California Energy Commission, Integrated Energy Policy Report Update 2009
"The magnitude of the infrastructure that California will have to plan, permit, procure, develop and integrate in the next ten years (to meet an RPS goal of 33 percent) is immense and unprecedented. Using past practices as a guide, the scale of the transmission and generation buildout will take at least 14 years if implementation starts today."
- California Public Utilities Commission, 33% RPS Implementation Analysis Preliminary Results
"A major barrier to the development of Renewable Standard Portfolio (RPS) projects is access to transmission. California's transmission system is constrained, and renewable resources are often located far from load centers and existing transmission lines."
- California Public Utilities Commission, RPS Project Transmission Barriers
"Unless sufficient transmission infrastructure is developed to connect renewable resources into the California ISO bulk transmission system and to the transmission system of municipal utilities, these renewable resources will remain inaccessible to the state's electric utilities."
- California Energy Commission, Integrated Energy Policy Report Update 2006
"California's Energy Infrastructure may be unable to meet the state's energy delivery needs in the near future."
- California Energy Commission, Integrated Energy Policy Report 2005
"The Phase 2A conceptual transmission plan is designed to facilitate meeting the goal of obtaining 33% of the state's electricity from renewables by 2020. But large investments in transmission infrastructure will be needed between now and 2020, regardless of the state energy-supply mix."
- Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative, Phase 2A Final Report September 2009
"To meet the goals that the public supports-the goals in the Governor's Executive Orders and the goals in AB 32-by 2020 requires several major new transmission projects be built in the state, even if the state does the maximum amount of energy efficiency programs and installs rooftop photovoltaics as fast as it can."
- Dave Olsen, Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative Director
"Modernizing America's electricity infrastructure is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's top priorities. Without dramatic improvements and upgrades over the next decade our nation's transmission system will fall short of the reliability standards our economy requires, and will result in higher electricity costs to consumers."
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Web Site
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