NYISO on Tuesday formally announced that the 2023 Class Year study was launched with between 80 and 90 projects participating.

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

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.

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.

FERC approved Vistra’s request to bypass MISO’s generator interconnection procedures to quickly add battery storage projects at two retiring fossil fuel plants.

NYISO proposed narrowing the system reliability impact study scopes for 35 generation projects in the queue in order to expedite the interconnection process.

Stakeholders and regulators concerned about extreme weather and clogged interconnection queues are also encouraged by FERC’s proposed rulemakings on the issues.