Permitting Bill less than it sounds

Wind and solar are still more expensive because they require back-up generating/storage capacity for when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow and they require dramatic increases in the national electricity transmission infrastructure. 

Today states decide how and when to permit electricity transmission lines and can con­sider how new trans­mis­sion lines af­fect their power sup­ply and their electricity costs when they de­cide whether to per­mit them or not. Manchin’s “Permitting Fix” would transfer this authority to the government (FERC). 

The bill al­lows FERC to force the costs of transmitting electricity with broad dis­cre­tion to socialize costs based on “rea­son­ably an­tic­i­pated ben­e­fits,” how­ever it de­fines them, such as re­duc­ing CO2 emis­sions. This means that FERC can decide which states have to bear the costs which can result in states with nuclear and fossil fuel (cheap) power to subsidize states that are developing expensive power sources (wind and solar.)

What could go wrong?