Some members of the Organization of MISO States are implying that MISO’s new interregional study with PJM is falling short of their hopes for a rigorous search for seams transmission projects.

The fate of two coal plants owned by AEP’s Appalachian Power is generating debate in a proceeding to approve the utility’s renewable portfolio standard plan at the Virginia State Corporation Commission.

The Operating Committee discussed PJM’s timeline for addressing technological and operational challenges the RTO plans to address over the next four years.

SPP directors and regulators have approved the grid operator’s first winter planning reserve margin, endorsing a base PRM that is 3 percentage points higher than many of its utilities wanted.

California energy agency heads appeared before state lawmakers to pitch the proposed CAISO governance changes being developed by the West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative.

CAISO CEO Elliot Mainzer, ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas and MISO's Todd Hillman joined a USEA webinar to discuss grid reliability amid increases in extreme weather and load growth.

Governance should be a “key consideration” for the West in the competition between day-ahead electricity markets because the outcome potentially affects $25 billion a year in energy transactions, according to a new “issue alert.”