FERC Chair Richard Glick and NERC CEO James Robb: The West needs to build transmission lines to connect renewable resources to load.

PJM delayed a vote on a proposal for changes to the pro forma interconnection construction service agreement.

The MISO-SPP joint targeted interconnection queue study has moved into its technical phase with a promise of more stakeholder involvement.

MISO, SPP won’t do a major interregional transmission study in 2021; they are focusing on a joint targeted interconnection queue study.

Minnesota regulators approved a PPA between Xcel Energy and a 200-MW Iowa wind farm that the utility says is the “last good-priced” wind in MISO.

NYISO urged the New York Public Service Commission to “move quickly” in supporting construction of a meshed transmission network to support offshore wind.

PJM is looking to move forward in the stakeholder process to examine interconnection process reform.

MISO announced it will table the effort to analyze network upgrades and wait until the end of the year to see how its long-term transmission plan develops.

SPP staff and stakeholders have added an accelerated decarbonization future to the RTO’s 20-year long-term assessment.

FERC accepted Tri-State G&T’s Tariff modifications to its large generator and small generation interconnection procedures and its proposed queue reform.