So getting the [wind] plants built, getting the generation built is a very big step, but it's not the ultimate step. The ultimate step is getting that renewable power to the customer. . . . Barriers to entry for the wind energy have been and continue to be significant. . . . Because it's all about nondiscrimination. . . . It's giving a new technology which has a popular appeal, which has good environmental attributes, giving that technology a fair seat at the table with coal, nuclear, hydro, and gas. . . . I think the biggest barrier today that's preventing wide access to wind resources reaching customers is [the lack of] a robust transmission grid.1
I. INTRODUCTION AND …