Panelists during WIRES’ virtual Summer Meeting discussed the impact of the pandemic on transmission rate structures, Order 1000 and FERC's incentives NOPR.

FERC rejected transmission customers’ complaint over MISO’s seven-year-old cost allocation plan for baseline reliability projects.

The third time’s a charm for MISO getting FERC approval of its sweeping, cost-allocation overhaul for large economic transmission projects.

ISO-NE presented the Planning Advisory Committee with revised study scenarios and threshold prices for the 2020 Economic Study requested by National Grid.

PJM stakeholders continued debating changes to processes used to plan market efficiency transmission projects, including a new regional targeted process.

The MISO Advisory Committee adopted the first set of standards for creating and joining stakeholder sectors and discussed the coordination of transmission planning.

FERC approved SOO Green’s request to charge negotiated rates on its 2,100-MW transmission line that would deliver renewable energy from MISO to PJM.

Officials from New England’s six states described their efforts to advance renewable energy goals despite the coronavirus pandemic.

SPP stakeholders once again took a crack to resolve a weighty issue in determining how futures will be considered in the RTO’s 2021 transmission plan study.

ISO-NE selected a $49 million project by incumbent utilities National Grid and Eversource Energy as the winner of its Boston 2028 transmission solicitation.