The Trump administration is abandoning controversial Biden-era plans to help developers build power lines in areas that badly need increased transmission infrastructure.
Under the Biden administration, the Department of Energy identified three corridors in the country that were facing higher prices or more frequent outages because of a lack of transmission infrastructure. Companies with interest in developing transmission infrastructure in those areas would be able to build more easily on both private and public land.
Those designated transmission corridors, known as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, proved politically radioactive with local communities that didn’t want more federal control over development on their lands. Republican politicians balked at the designations.