Panelists at the GCPA conference linked long queue waits, major transmission expansion, reliability worries and the inexorable takeover of renewable energy.

A new CAISO stakeholder initiative aims to overhaul its interconnection process to deal with a flood of requests to connect renewable resources and storage.

PJM’s Board of Managers is opening an accelerated stakeholder process to address rising reliability concerns about the RTO’s capacity market.

FERC granted waivers to 8 renewable projects, allowing them more time to have their interconnection studies approved by NYISO before entering the CY23 study.

MISO remains set on limiting transmission congestion by instituting a lower system impact threshold on interconnecting generation.

SPP and MISO plan to apply for grants from the Department of Energy to help fund five transmission projects recently identified in their JTIQ work.

Roger Clayton of the NYSRC told stakeholders that the council is developing interconnection reliability rules for inverter-based resources.

FERC granted a waiver to several renewable energy projects that allows their developers to circumvent MISO’s fee distribution.

MISO made several maneuvers in 2022 to position itself for a majority-renewable portfolio while attempting to take the sting out of a rising capacity deficit.

NYISO officials said Wednesday they will begin stakeholder discussions early next year on revising the interconnection process to make it more efficient.