UtilityDive: Sens. Manchin, Barrasso craft bipartisan permitting reform bill amid growing load forecasts

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And U.S. manufacturers are poised to add facilities with 36 GW of load by 2030, Karen Onaran, Electricity Consumers Resource Council president and CEO, said at the hearing.

“We strongly encourage Congress to pass electric transmission and energy infrastructure planning and siting and permitting reform to reduce the long and often unsurmountable study requirements and misguided opposition from regulatory authorities,” Onaran said.