September 29, 2024

Transmission Planning

PJM PC Briefs: Jan. 11, 2021
PJM stakeholders heard another first read of the RTO’s proposals for mitigating and avoiding critical infrastructure designations under NERC rules.
FERC Accepts Tri-State GI Procedures
FERC accepted Tri-State G&T’s Tariff modifications to its large generator and small generation interconnection procedures and its proposed queue reform.
SPP Stakeholders Facing Time Crunch
SPP is attempting to balance staff and stakeholder time spent on analysis and studies with the need to adapt to a changing business environment.
SPP MOPC Briefs: Jan. 11-12, 2021
SPP staff unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue.
Western RA Effort Could Wrest Some Control from States
A recent report concluded that a Western resource adequacy program could require state regulators & utilities to relinquish some control over IRP processes.
MISO Pledges Work on Affected System Studies
MISO said it will approach SPP about improving the processes underpinning affected system studies in response to stakeholders’ persistent calls for change.
NYISO Business Issues Committee Briefs: Jan. 13, 2021
The NYISO Business Issues Committee OK'd meter-related manual revisions and discussed updates to the 2019 CARIS database.
MISO Begins Longterm Tx Modeling
MISO will draw on its new planning futures to build the first set of models that could result in the long-term transmission plan’s first projects.
MISO, SPP Regulators Call for Pancaking Fix, Smaller Projects
SPP and MISO regulators would like to see the RTOs improve seams relations by resolving rate pancaking and adding a smaller interregional project category.
‘Participant Funding’ Violates FPA, Grid Groups Say
RTO policies assigning network upgrades to interconnection customers are no longer just and reasonable, renewable advocates said in a new report.

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