Transmission Planning

MISO Cost Allocation Plan Wins OK on 3rd Round
The third time’s a charm for MISO getting FERC approval of its sweeping, cost-allocation overhaul for large economic transmission projects.
ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee Briefs: July 22, 2020
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 Debate Market Efficiency Proposals
PJM stakeholders continued debating changes to processes used to plan market efficiency transmission projects, including a new regional targeted process.
MISO Members Make 1st Rules on Sectors
The MISO Advisory Committee adopted the first set of standards for creating and joining stakeholder sectors and discussed the coordination of transmission planning.
FERC OKs Negotiated Rates for Merchant Tx Line
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.
NE States Pursue Clean Energy, Despite COVID-19
Officials from New England’s six states described their efforts to advance renewable energy goals despite the coronavirus pandemic.
SPP MOPC Briefs: July 15-16, 2020
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 Chooses Incumbent as Boston RFP Winner
ISO-NE selected a $49 million project by incumbent utilities National Grid and Eversource Energy as the winner of its Boston 2028 transmission solicitation.
Record Number of Entrants Line up for MISO Queue
Facing an unprecedented number of new generator applicants, MISO reaffirmed its aim to speed up its interconnection queue.
Panel: Much More Tx Needed for New England OSW
New England needs to build much more onshore transmission to facilitate the incoming surge of offshore wind generation, panelists on a NECA webinar said.

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