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The excerpts discuss several financial and timeline risks and concerns:

Financial Risks and Concerns:
- The project faces potential cost increases due to inflation, supply chain disruptions, and labor shortages, which could lead to budget overruns.
- There is concern about securing sufficient funding if project costs escalate.
- Unanticipated permitting or regulatory requirements could add to costs.

Timeline Risks and Concerns:
- Delays in obtaining permits and regulatory approvals are identified as significant timeline risks.
- Potential construction delays due to supply chain issues or labor shortages could extend the project schedule.
- Weather-related disruptions are also mentioned as possible causes of timeline slippage.

These risks may affect both the overall cost and the completion date of the project.

The docket identifies several areas of growth, including:

1. Large Loads and Load Growth:
- Transmission planning is increasingly driven by the need to support large new loads, including industrial or commercial developments and rapid load growth in certain geographic areas.
- Key considerations include the need for transparent attribution of transmission project drivers to large loads, ensuring that justifications for new investments are clear and that cost causation and system benefits are appropriately evaluated. Transmission approvals are recommended to be tied directly to large load commitments to ensure efficient planning and resource allocation 1.

2. Solar and Renewable Resource Integration:
- Growth in solar generation and the integration of renewable resources require upgrades and strategic investments in transmission infrastructure.
- It is important that transmission project justifications clearly state when solar integration is the primary driver, and that detailed descriptions of the geographic relevance and system benefits of projects are provided. This helps stakeholders understand the project’s role in supporting renewable resource integration and reliability 1.

3. Demand Side Management (DSM) and Energy Efficiency:
- The docket notes significant growth in DSM initiatives, with a proposed plan resulting in an additional 741 GWh of annual energy reductions and 224 MW of peak demand savings for 2026–2028.
- Key considerations for DSM growth include minimizing upward pressure on rates, maximizing economic efficiency (using tests such as RIM and TRC), and ensuring robust stakeholder engagement in program design and evaluation. DSM is prioritized in resource planning to reduce energy and demand forecasts before considering supply-side options 2.

4. Transmission Reliability Reinforcement:
- Reliability is a major growth area, with projects justified on the basis of reinforcing grid reliability to accommodate new loads, generation retirements, or changing resource mixes.
- The docket emphasizes the need for detailed project descriptions to clarify how each investment supports reliability, and calls for consistent criteria when evaluating future interconnection projects for both generation and load 1.

5. Non-Wires Alternatives (NWAs):
- There is growing attention to NWAs, including storage as transmission-only assets (SATOAs), distributed generation, and demand-side solutions, especially in constrained or rapidly growing areas.
- A key consideration is the recommendation for Georgia Power to incorporate technical and economic screening of NWAs as potential substitutes for traditional line or substation builds, aligning transmission planning with updated load forecasts and considering alternative, potentially lower-cost approaches to meeting system needs 3.

Each of these growth areas is linked to the need for transparent planning, stakeholder engagement, economic efficiency, and adaptability to changing system conditions.