Wednesday, December 31, 1969 · The Powering America Podcast
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Devin Hartman

Senior Fellow

R Street Institute

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  • The most cost-effective way to serve most customers is to have large central power plants, and those are gonna be located farther away from customers.
  • It turns out it's expensive and contentious to build, and a lot of times, there's so many beneficiaries of it.
  • There's usually thousands or millions of people who benefit from a single power line, which means a lot of times you need these big regional planning apparatuses to come in.
  • We've seen a pretty chronic underrepresentation of consumer interests.
  • A lot of times what we're seeing in this field is you're having this... we don't subject most of transmission expansion to cost-benefit tests.
  • When the conservative community started to recognize, like, 'Whoa, we're not building enough infrastructure, and then what we are building is unnecessarily expensive,' like, all right, there's a case for us to get involved.