In a noteworthy and conflicting coincidence, the Department of Energy's (DOE) new multidisciplinary Energy Advisory Committee issued a draft report, "Keeping the Lights on in the New World," in which the committee bemoaned the lack of long-term integrated resource planning (IRP) in many, if not most, U.S. power markets. Concurrently the Virginia State Corporation Commission begrudgingly agreed with one of its hearing examiners that federal energy policy barred the commonwealth from using IRP to evaluate generation and demand-management alternatives to a proposed new high-voltage transmission line that would traverse some of the nation's most historically profound landscape. These two opposing takes on current U.S. energy policy beg important questions: Are current efforts to "keep the lights on" inadequate as the advisory committee contends? If so, then is that inadequacy caused by a real or perceived federal prohibition against IRP?
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机译：值得注意的是，能源部（DOE）的新的跨学科能源咨询委员会发布了一份报告草稿“继续关注新世界”，其中委员会抱怨缺乏长期的综合资源规划（ IRP）在许多（如果不是大多数）美国电力市场中。同时，弗吉尼亚州公司委员会（Virginia State Corporation Commission）同意一位听证员的意见，即联邦能源政策禁止联邦使用IRP评估拟议的新高压输电线路的发电和需求管理替代方案，该输电线路将穿越美国一些历史最悠久的高压输电线路风景秀丽。当前美国能源政策的这两个对立面提出了一个重要的问题：咨询委员会所争辩的当前努力“保持开明”是否不足？如果是这样，那么这种不足是否是由联邦对IRP的实际或公认的禁令引起的？
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