The New England Power Pool Participants Committee voted narrowly not to approve ISO-NE’s recommended installed capacity requirement values for FCA 14.

The NEPOOL Reliability Committee indicated its displeasure with the re-evaluation of the fuel-security reliability review for Mystic Units 8 and 9.

NEPOOL provided the Transmission Committee with an update on the hearing procedures in the proceeding under Federal Power Act Section 206.

The NEPOOL Reliability and Transmission Committees jointly met to discuss a multitude of governing document changes and transmission upgrades.

ISO-NE presented a new draft of the competitive transmission request for proposals template for stakeholder review at the Planning Advisory Committee.

Entergy, SPS and TIEC have asked to dismiss their appeal of a PUC of Texas order negating an incumbent utility’s right-of-first-refusal.

MISO acknowledged the future of a NextEra transmission project is uncertain after the passage of a Texas law giving incumbent utilities a ROFR in the state.

A pair of studies have drawn divergent conclusions about the merits of competitive transmission solicitations. The differences may have to do with sponsors.

LS Power asked FERC to compel MISO to lower the threshold for competitively bid market efficiency projects from 345 kV to 100 kV.

Fast-moving Texas legislation that would give incumbent utilities the right of first refusal to build transmission projects is on the brink of passage.