Transmission Planning
MISO and PJM will entertain proposals for interregional reliability projects even though none of the 19 planned reliability upgrades offer opportunities for collaboration.
The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee discussed the RTO's recent pseudo-tie filing, capacity replacement and fuel-cost policies.
The ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee discussed several changes in the RTO's procedures for 2017 and Eversource's aging transmission towers.
ISO-NE nixed a request for proposals for the Keene Road market efficiency transmission upgrade because it would be prohibitively expensive.
PJM CEO Andy Ott and SPP CEO Nick Brown said that FERC Order 1000 is causing headaches while doing little to encourage transmission development.
MISO spent $1.3 million to evaluate construction bids in its first competitive transmission process, funded by the 11 developers that submitted proposals.
Preliminary results of the MISO and SPP '16 coordinated system study are in, and the RTOs say one project has potential, but it fails MISO’s cost threshold.
The futures assumptions for the MISO 2017 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) are finalized, with the RTO granting its South region a different future weighting.
PJM's response to the delay of a transmission line to maintain reliability near Jamestown, Va., may lead to increased costs to ratepayers.
Electric infrastructure projects are often stymied by federal regulatory reviews that seem to drag on forever, witnesses told a U.S. Senate committee.
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