Energy experts and officials stressed the importance of proactive transmission planning, interconnection reform and increased demand-side flexibility at Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable.

Texas regulators proposed new rules on large load forecasting criteria and net metering following the state’s recent biennial legislative session and opened them up to public comment.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the bill that will allow CAISO to transition the governance of its markets to an independent “regional organization,” along with five other bills related to energy and emissions.

MISO’s generator interconnection queue has fallen to 215 GW as developers cut back on projects in response to the federal phaseout of renewable energy tax incentives, RTO leadership said.

MISO will start evaluating its South region for long-term transmission needs in 2026, beginning with Louisiana, the RTO announced before its Board of Directors.

PJM and the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities are in discussions on how the transmission and interconnection facilities planned for the state’s offshore wind aspirations can be put on ice in the wake of all the generation developers pulling out of their projects.

The Planning Committee voted to endorse a PJM quick fix proposal to expand provisional interconnection service to allow resources that are not fully deliverable to enter service as energy-only resources.

Ameren Illinois remains adamant that it should have exclusive access to construct nearly $2 billion of MISO regional transmission projects in the state without competition.

Utilities at a customer-led workshop voiced support for Bonneville Power Administration’s shift toward proactive transmission planning, though some expressed reservations about the agency’s proposed commercial readiness criteria.