FERC opened the door for PJM to resubmit a previously rejected proposal to shift its Regional Transmission Expansion Plan protocol from its operating agreement to its tariff, while dismissing a rehearing request for a connected proposal by the RTO’s transmission owners.

The Planning Committee endorsed by acclamation a PJM proposal to rework how it determines which jurisdiction a resource point of interconnection falls under.

Invenergy is standing by the value of its $11 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express transmission project with a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who is said to have pledged to block the line.

The Bonneville Power Administration unveiled its proposals for overhauling its transmission planning, with help from the industry.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has released four new market improvement recommendations concerning transmission congestion, the Midwest-South transmission link, market-to-market coordination and price settlements after grid devastation.

FERC Commissioner Judy Chang, in a speech at WIRES' summer meeting, laid out how the major issues facing the power industry are related and how important it is to the future of competition that they are addressed correctly in the long term.

The NYISO Management Committee passed two motions at its June 30 meeting, unanimously recommending that the Board of Directors approve them.

NYISO is proposing changes to certain capacity market parameters to accommodate the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission project, as well as facilitate the new entry of resources.

FERC denied a waiver request by MISO and SPP to modify the Coordinated System Plan under their joint operating agreement, saying it is not the “appropriate vehicle” to improve the process.

Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.