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PJM
FERC Commissioner Mark Christie used orders on two transmission projects to blast the commission’s “ridiculously generous” incentives.
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A report by FERC, NERC and Texas RE focused on the risk of natural gas disruptions to utilities' black-start restoration plans.
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The Department of Energy released its final guidelines for the designation of National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors, which are narrowly defined areas where transmission is urgently needed to ensure reliability and affordability and advance “important national interests.”
Entergy
A former Grand Gulf nuclear plant employee testified he witnessed mismanagement by supervisors and was fired for refusing to revise audits documenting problems.
CAISO
CAISO’s Board of Governors approved the inclusion of the Southwest Intertie Project-North in to the ISO’s 2022-2023 transmission portfolio.
PacifiCorp
Utilities are rolling out new GETs projects, DOE officials said, but “there are more than 3,000 utilities in the United States, and a few excellent projects won’t get us where we need to be.”
Texas Public Utility Commission
Texas PUC Commissioner Will McAdams has made good on his intention to resign by year’s end, having sat through his last open meeting.
Transource
A federal court overturned Pennsylvania regulators’ rejection of the Independence Energy Connection, but the project’s fate depends on a PJM benefit-cost analysis.
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The PJM Board of Managers approved staff's recommended projects for the third window of the 2022 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.
NERC
NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment sees some risk for reliability issues in most of the country as the industry has to deal with faster demand growth and shifting supplies of generation.
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