Why FERC is handing power back to utilities

Published: May 16, 2022, 9 a.m.

Faced with new urgency under President Joe Biden's goal to rid the electric grid of planet-warming carbon dioxide by 2035, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is putting transmission planning back in the hands of the nation\u2019s large utilities, who have long controlled construction of the power network in their territories. POLITICO\u2019s Catherine Morehouse explains.