aggressive proposals that have been put forward to expand federal authority in transmission planning and seaeding. at their core, these proposals prepare to put ferc in three roles. they have the short period of time in interconnection wide plans. ostensibly to access renewable resources. second, it puts ferc in the world of deeming transmission included in such plans as needed for the public convenience and welfare triggering the citing override and third t puts ferc in the role of improving the allocation across all load. under these proposals. ferc's -- under these proposals, ferc's traditional authority is expanded to where it becomes a defact on central planning authority to select the resources across the nation. the abundant level of demand reduction in renewable resources at the local level in the regions. developing renewable resources is a top priority for the commonwealth as i'm sure it is for states across the country. we believe that renewable resources in our state and along the eastern seaboard both onshore and offshore represent one of the nation's most promising and yet underdeve

aggressive proposals that have been put forward to expand federal authority in transmission planning and seaeding. at their core, these proposals prepare to put ferc in three roles. they have the short period of time in interconnection wide plans. ostensibly to access renewable resources. second, it puts ferc in the world of deeming transmission included in such plans as needed for the public convenience and welfare triggering the citing override and third t puts ferc in the role of improving the allocation across all load. under thpr we would hope to see something that one would recognize those areas that have a priority. because of the richness of their renewable resources. but more than that, recognize that if we are going to meet any requirements for renewable portfolio standards or carbon reduction, we've got to do a much better job of matching up how long it takes to do renewable development, with how long it takes to get the transmission to those developments. >> so again, not to make too fine of a point of this. but you're saying out west, it's very difficult, if you're dealing with the r