The California Public Utility Commission approved construction of a set of transmission infrastructure projects to support a 90-MW data center owned by Microsoft, but questions remain about whether the upgrades will increase or decrease ratepayer costs.

PJM's Operating Committee delayed a vote on Manual 1 revisions to give more time to review language changes.

Some of the Bonneville Power Administration’s proposals aimed at resuming transmission planning processes risk pushing study timelines to the point where the agency’s customers could run afoul of clean energy targets in Washington and Oregon, stakeholders say.

The Organization of PJM States Inc. presented PJM's Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee with a set of assumptions for the RTO's planning process reflecting state legislation and policies.

PJM stakeholders endorsed an expanded dual fuel manual definition, and the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee was presented with a list of supplemental projects.

The Union of Concerned Scientists said MISO’s most devastating power outages in the last decade can be attributed to an increasingly unstable climate and compounding weather events.

MISO selected a 50/50 joint venture between Transource and Berkshire Hathaway Energy Transmission to build a $1.2 billion, 765-kV project from the RTO’s second long-range transmission portfolio.

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill that would exempt large loads served on islanded systems from federal economic regulations for the electric industry.

CAISO has proposed new interconnection criteria to flush out stale projects from a generator interconnection queue that has reached record volumes in recent years.