Transmission Operations
FERC’s revamp of its generator interconnection procedures will impose penalties on transmission providers that fail to complete studies on time.
FERC approved Order 2023 at its regular meeting, requiring changes to its pro forma interconnection queue that are aimed at clearing up the backlog of more than 2,000 GW of resources.
The New York Power Authority is greatly expanding its unmanned aerial vehicle program.
The NYISO Operating Committee reviewed June's operations and approved manuals to support distributed energy resources market implementation.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with FERC, upholding its decision to suspend PJM's transmission penalty factor when it was driving up prices in Virginia.
Congressional Democrats have reintroduced legislation to require FERC to establish interregional transmission planning processes and increase RTO transparency.
MISO stakeholders are trying to figure out what transmission service requirements the grid operator has in place for battery storage that charges from the grid.
NYISO has begun the process of studying how energy storage resources can be considered as traditional transmission assets.
Grid-enhancing technologies offer significant savings, but first a naturally conservative industry needs to get used to using the emerging technologies while maintaining reliability.
SPP stakeholders endorsed a tariff revision request that adds a winter resource adequacy requirement for load-responsible entities bound by the grid operator’s recent planning reserve margin increase.
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