By Amanda Durish Cook
Eleven respondents have submitted proposals for MISO’s Duff-Coleman transmission project, the RTO’s first competitive project under FERC Order 1000.
MISO said Friday that all 11 proposals were judged complete.
“Now that we have finalized our review of the proposals for purposes of completeness, we will begin evaluating the proposals based on the criteria set forth in the MISO Tariff and our Business Practices Manual,” said Priti Patel, MISO North regional executive and executive director of the RTO’s competitive transmission administration.
MISO identified the developers as:
- Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois and PPL TransLink;
- Duke-American Transmission Co.;
- Edison Transmission;
- GridAmerica Holdings;
- ITC Midcontinent Development;
- Midcontinent MCN, with the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission;
- NextEra Energy Transmission Midwest;
- Republic Transmission, a subsidiary of LS Power Transmission, with Big Rivers Electric;
- Vectren Energy Delivery of Indiana, a unit of Southern Indiana Gas and Electric, and Public Service Enterprise Group;
- Transource Energy, a partnership between American Electric Power and Great Plains Energy, with subsidiaries Transource Indiana and Transource Kentucky; and
- Xcel Energy Transmission Development.
The request for proposals window on the project opened in January and closed early last month. (See MISO Duff-Coleman RFP Deadline Passes; RTO Reviewing Bids.) The $67.4 million project was approved by the MISO Board of Directors as part of the 2015 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan.
MISO expects to announce its selection no later than Dec. 30. Construction on the pair of substations and the 28.5-mile 345-kV connecting line in Southern Indiana and Western Kentucky is expected to last through 2020, with the line in service by the beginning of 2021.
