ICF demonstrates that IRA costs savings are squandered due to transmission woes

The ICF has found that IRA tax incentives for renewables will lower project costs by up to 67%. Unsurprisingly, they also found that finding project locations and plugging them into the grid will be difficult. They reported that almost 1.3 TW of clean energy projects have applied for grid interconnection, but many projects wait for years waiting for approval while others are canceled due to insurmountable transmission upgrade costs.