Areas of Power Grid Congestion ID'd

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2006/aug/07/080705618.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Southern California and the urban centers from Northern Virginia to New York face the most critical power grid problems, but such remote areas as Montana and the Dakotas may need new transmission lines in the near future, an Energy Department report warns.

The grid congestion report to be released Tuesday is a first step to the government proposing electricity transmission corridors later this year to try to ease bottlenecks and avoid blackouts.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said the department will now begin the process of proposing new transmission corridors that are of special importance to the national power grid.

"If we are to ensure electricity reliability, it is important that we do what we can to facilitate investment in new generation and transmission capacity," Bodman said in a statement.

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1. The pdf is on this webpage

I don't see the "High Resolution" version listed.

http://www.oe.energy.gov/epa_sec1221.htm

National Electric Transmission Congestion Study

* Full Text of report - Low Resolution (web version PDF 32.8 MB-Note: Graphics may not print clearly)
* Congestion Study Executive Summary (PDF 786 KB)
* Text of Notice of Inquiry (NOI) (PDF 988 KB)
* Press release
* Remarks from Kevin Kolevar, Director, Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability (PDF 24.9 KB)
* Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)