PJM’s announcement of plans to recommend more than $400 million in transmission upgrades sparked pushback from American Municipal Power.

MISO Advisory Committee members affirmed the stakeholder debate on creating a cost recovery mechanism for customer-funded transmission upgrades.

The PJM Board of Managers authorized $1 billion in transmission project, including new construction, end-of-life replacements and upgrades.

Stakeholders will have 15 days to comment on ISO-NE’s reorganized transmission planning guide, which will reduce the existing guide to four sections.

FERC rejected a CAISO proposal intended to prevent small transmission owners from shouldering the costs for network upgrades.

FERC approved PG&E's request to recover from its customers a portion of the costs of a $1.8 billion package of planned transmission improvements.

MISO will resume discussion on possible cost recovery for participant-funded transmission projects under 345 kV.

The SPP Regional State Committee unanimously agreed to leave the aggregate study’s safe harbor cost limit unchanged at $180,000/MW.

MISO’s Steering Committee declined to reconsider a proposal that would allow funders of transmission upgrades for lines under 345 kV to recover costs.

Calpine, PG&E and Southern California Edison released their second-quarter earnings results last week.