FERC denied a rehearing request of its November 2017 order on remand regarding transmission cost allocation in the WestConnect planning region.

Federal courts rejected two challenges involving FERC Order 1000: one to Minnesota's ROFR law, and another to MISO's interregional cost allocation.

SPP said it is accepting applications for industry experts to serve on a fourth independent panel to review Order 1000 transmission proposals in 2019.

Votes on the House floor kept a House Energy Subcommittee hearing on transmission planning to about 90 minutes.

Stakeholders plowed through several hours of material at a special PJM Planning Committee session on whether the RTO should include cost containment provisions in its analysis of competitive bids for new transmission.

FERC told Congress it is ready to act on distributed energy resources (DER), assuring House members they will not encroach on state jurisdiction.

The U.S. Justice Department said that a Minnesota law granting in-state transmission owners rights of first refusal on grid additions is unconstitutional.

PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

Corporations' decarbonization efforts may be frustrated because of insufficient transmission to move Midwest wind power to load centers.

A Delaware demand-side group has asked the PJM Board of Managers to again suspend the Artificial Island transmission project.