New England utilities updated the ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee on their plans to repair and upgrade their transmission facilities.

ISO-NE presented a draft of its Maine Resource Integration Study to the Planning Advisory Committee along with an update on the New England economy.

ISO-NE will revise the scope of its 2027 transmission needs assessments after stakeholders raised questions about the study’s dispatch modeling.

ISO-NE’s Planning Advisory Committee hashed over technical details from stakeholder comments regarding the grid operator’s draft 2016 Scenario Analysis.

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

ISO-NE hopes to open a window in November for Maine wind generators interested in joining a cluster interconnection system impact study.

At last week's ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee meeting, Eversource presented evidence of woodpecker damage and decaying support structures.

ISO-NE is working to adopt clustering methodology to speed the development of new capacity, particularly to help free wind power trapped in Maine.

New England will have only enough natural gas capacity to supply about half of its gas-fired generation in winters 2025 and 2030, according to NEPOOL.

ISO-NE's 2017 Capacity, Energy, Loads and Transmission Report shows a reduced load forecast from 2016 but predicts increased load for the Southeast area.