Transmission Planning

ERCOT
ERCOT Stakeholders Endorse $9.4B 765-kV Build
ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a 1,109-mile, single-circuit 765-kV backbone project that is projected to cost nearly $9.4 billion in capital costs, making it the largest initiative in decades.
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Collaboration Key to Energy Affordability, Say U.S. and Canadian Officials
Energy affordability and regional collaboration dominated talks at the New England-Canada Business Council's annual Executive Energy Conference.
ATC and ITC Midwest
House Natural Resources Committee Advances Permitting Bills
The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a package of permitting bills, headlined by the SPEED Act that seeks to speed up permit processing and limit litigation.
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MISO TOs Oppose Tx Cost Containment Suggestions
Multiple transmission owners have questioned the need behind a suggestion that MISO work more checks into its process for reviewing troubled transmission projects.
Entergy
MISO South Regulators Ready to Strike Out on Their Own for Tx Cost Allocation
MISO South states have signaled their intent to strike out on their own on a cost allocation design for long-range transmission projects located exclusively in the South subregion.
MISO
MISO Draft Tx Planning Futures Envision 400-GW Supply or More by 2045
MISO predicts it will have anywhere from 383 GW to 454 GW of installed capacity its footprint by 2045, according to a preliminary version of its 20-year planning futures.
Northwest Power and Conservation Council
NWPCC Study Finds Market Availability Steady Across Different Scenarios
The buildout of new resources in the Western Interconnection over the next 20 years is “remarkably similar” across a variety of scenarios tested by NWPCC’s market availability study.
Invenergy
Enviros Challenge MISO, SPP Queue Express Lanes
Environmental groups are further pressing their opposition to MISO's and SPP’s fast-track studies for primarily fossil fuel projects, challenging both at the D.C. Circuit in a pair of lawsuits.
MISO
$12B MISO 2025 Tx Portfolio Close to Final Approval
A MISO board committee advanced 432 projects from transmission owners at a cost of almost $12.3 billion under the RTO’s 2025 Transmission Expansion Plan.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE Provides More Detail on Responses to LTTP Procurement
ISO-NE published a summary of proposals submitted for its first longer-term transmission planning procurement, which is aimed at reducing transmission constraints.

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