Many comments on the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large load interconnections warned against going too far into jurisdictional issues.

FERC rejected a complaint from the Kentucky PSC against AEP, finding the utility holding company's practice of spreading supplemental projects around its PJM utilities is still just and reasonable.

PJM presented its shortlist of projects for inclusion in the first window of its 2025 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

The SPP board has approved the RTO's 2025 Integrated Transmission Plan that includes four 765-kV projects.

Xcel Energy and AEP both said during their quarterly earnings calls that they have increased their capital investment spend to meet increasing demand from large loads.

AEP Transmission plans to rebuild or upgrade 5,000 line-miles in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma and West Virginia.

American Electric Power and Xcel Energy say clean energy projects are still a part of their plans, despite the hurdles placed in front of them by the federal government’s budget reconciliation bill.

AEP tells financial analysts that load growth, driven by commercial customers in its service territory, presents opportunities to invest in “critically needed” infrastructure.

Stakeholders urged FERC to consider reliability and consumer costs when weighing approaches to co-located large loads.

PJM presented a $97 million increase to a project included in the 2022 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan that would remove two 230-kV lines and reroute them.