Prompted by Direct Connect and its proposed SOO Green project, PJM stakeholders agreed to consider integrating HVDC converters as a capacity resource.

The ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee approved the Corpus Christi North Shore transmission project to address more than 1 GW of industrial load growth.

The 2020 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan contains 510 proposed projects at a combined $4.06 billion, the priciest since the RTO's 2011 MVP portfolio.

A proposal to open end-of-life transmission projects in PJM to regional planning and competitive bidding was narrowly defeated at the MRC meeting.

ISO-NE presented the preliminary results of economic studies conducted for NESCOE and Anbaric.

PJM transmission owners warned in a strongly worded letter that “PJM is at a crossroads” with an upcoming sector-weighted vote on end-of-life projects.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee discussed load forecasting method changes, DC-coupled facilities' participation in the markets and transmission upgrades.

PJM incumbent TOs won a victory as the Planning Committee endorsed a new regional targeted market efficiency project process that would be excluded from competition.

PJM on Friday hosted an IPSAC meeting with ISO-NE and NYISO to provide input for the development of the Northeast Coordinated System Plan.

A planned undersea transmission network interconnecting future offshore wind projects would save New England more than $1 billion, The Brattle Group said.