Press Releases
WIRES Announces 2023 Officers and Board of Directors
Amanda Conner, Vice President at American Electric Power, Named WIRES President WASHINGTON, Nov. 7, 2022 -- WIRES, the transmission trade association that promotes investment in all aspects of the high-voltage grid, announced today its 2023 leadership team,...
WIRES Announces 2022 Leadership Team
Will Sauer, Federal Regulatory Affairs Director, Duke Energy Named WIRES President WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2021 - WIRES, the international trade association that promotes investment in all aspects of the high voltage grid, announced today its 2022...
Statements
WIRES Statement on DOE’s Better Grid Initiative
"WIRES welcomes the Department of Energy’s Better Grid Initiative and its effort to help speed development of the long-distance transmission our nation critically needs to ensure grid resilience, integrate new cleaner energy generation, and harden the grid against...
Statement Regarding Filing of Comments on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s “Incentives NOPR”
WIRES, an international non-profit trade association that promotes investment in the North American high voltage electric transmission grid, submitted comments today in response to FERC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Electric Transmission Incentives Policy Under...
WIRES in the News
“One of the last things we need in an effort to try to get transmission built in a timely basis is a lot more process, or things being injected into the process that create trip wires for projects to not move forward.” – Larry Gasteiger
The [IRA] bill is “a tremendous positive for clean energy development and for transmission, and the two are connected,” said Larry Gasteiger, executive director of WIRES. “This just continues to demonstrate that nexus.”
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WIRES Summer Member Meeting 2023
July 26-27, 2023
The Omni Grove Park Inn, Asheville, NC