For years, there has been broad agreement that America needs more energy infrastructure. The harder part has been figuring out how to actually get it built.

Last week, four Senate leaders from both parties came together around one of the more significant bipartisan energy efforts we have seen from this Congress: a sweeping permitting reform agreement designed to help America build again called a “once in a generation policy shift.”

Yet this opportunity goes directly to two of the biggest challenges facing our energy system: supply and affordability.

The legislation would expand FERC’s ability to permit important interstate transmission projects, require stronger regional and interregional planning, and encourage technologies that can move more electricity across the infrastructure we already have. It also includes reforms intended to speed the connection of new power supplies to the grid.

For New Jersey, that matters.

Electricity doesn’t stop at the state line. More transmission can give us greater access to available generation across regions, help bring new supply onto the grid and strengthen reliability. Supporters of the legislation argue those changes can also help reduce the energy burden on consumers. We get that there will be debate over the details. But at a time of growing electricity demand and rising affordability concerns, this kind of bipartisan agreement is an opportunity worth taking seriously.

We need to move permitting reform forward. We need more supply. We need the transmission infrastructure to move that energy where it is needed. And we need to do both with affordability for ratepayers at the center of the conversation.

That really could be a once-in-a-generation opportunity.