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MISO
MISO Kicks off South’s Long-range Tx Plan with More Restrained Approach
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.
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PJM Revises Non-capacity Backed Load Proposal
PJM revised elements of its proposal to create a non-capacity backed load product for large loads as the Critical Issue Fast Path embarks on determining how to address the reliability challenges posed by accelerating data center load growth.
GE Hitachi and Ontario Power Generation
Ontario Environmentalists Slam New Nuclear Units

Ontario environmental groups panned the Canadian government’s inclusion of small modular reactors among infrastructure projects selected to receive fast-track regulatory treatment, saying renewables would be a far cheaper way to expand generation capacity.

Western Energy
New Challenges Await Pathways After Success in Calif. Legislature
With California passing the bill designed to transition the governance of CAISO’s markets to an independent regional organization, new challenges await the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative as the coalition seeks to turn a once-elusive goal into reality.
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MISO IMM: Capacity Prices Efficient Despite Yearslong Error
MISO’s Independent Market Monitor said the recently uncovered, eight-year-old repeat error in the RTO’s capacity market that caused a $280 million impact in this year’s auction alone is unfortunate but insisted the resulting prices were efficient.
Shutterstock
Will the Supreme Court End FERC’s Independence?
Ongoing cases working their way through the courts have raised questions about the future of FERC's independence.
EIA
Power Play: Extreme Heat is Set to Test Grid Reliability, Human Resiliency
Heat affects the full length of the electric supply chain: from generation, through the grid, to utilities’ customers, says columnist Dej Knuckey.
California Senate
Calif. Lawmakers Pass Bill to Accelerate Transmission Development
The California legislature passed a bill that would create a “transmission accelerator” to develop low-cost public financing programs for certain transmission projects. 
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PJM MIC Endorses 2 Quadrennial Review Proposals
The PJM Market Implementation Committee voted to endorse two packages of revisions to key parameters of the capacity market out of six offered by PJM and stakeholders that resulted from the Quadrennial Review.
Exelon
PJM TEAC Briefs: Sept. 9, 2025
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.

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