September 24, 2024

Transmission Planning

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NYISO RNA Raises Concerns over Timing of Peaker Unit Retirements
NYISO’s draft Reliability Needs Assessment found no reliability issues until 2032 but identified tightening transmission security and resource adequacy margins.
Pattern Energy
Effective Transmission Planning Requires Western RTO, Panelists Say
A Western RTO will be necessary to build the kind of grid needed to meet states' GHG goals, according to speakers on a panel hosted by ACEG.
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Search for Small SPP-MISO Interregional Projects May be Fruitless
MISO and SPP prepared stakeholders last week for the possibility they may come up empty-handed in their hunt for smaller interregional transmission upgrades.
U.S. Energy Association
ESSC To-do List: Labor Shortage, Forest Management, Transformers
The Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council is discussing how the industry can deploy newfound federal funding to accelerate the energy transition.
PJM
NJ BPU OKs $1.07B OSW Transmission Expansion
New Jersey regulators voted to spend $1.07 billion on transmission upgrades to deliver 6,400 MW of offshore wind generation to the PJM grid.
Evergy
FERC Affirms SPP’s Zonal Planning Criteria
FERC sustained a previous order accepting an SPP tariff revision that sets a process allowing each transmission zone to develop a uniform planning criteria.
Ariel Corp.
NYISO Operating Committee Briefs: Oct. 13, 2022
NYISO recommended removing NY-PJM IROL limitations as well as highlighted and approved manual updates related to ancillary services and reliability needs.
NYISO
NYISO Class Year 2021 Cost Allocations Advance to OC Vote
NYISO stakeholders voted to recommend the ISO’s Class Year 2021 study results and cost allocations advance to a vote by the Operating Committee.
Consumers Energy
MISO to File More Stringent Generator Retirement Study Process
MISO remains committed to beefing up and making information from its generation retirement studies more public.
Entergy
Stakeholders Doubt MISO Study of Alternative Tx Projects
Clean energy and consumer advocates questioned whether MISO planners are sufficiently exploring alternatives to the projects its transmission owners submit.

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