Transmission Operations
Utilities and grid operators urged caution on new dynamic line rating requirements while state regulators, consumers and grid enhancing technology firms said they want the mandates.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced almost $2 billion in new funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act aimed at improving grid reliability and resilience.
The commission received dozens of comments on its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking that would require broad use of dynamic line ratings across the U.S. transmission grid.
The growth of battery storage resources in the West largely contributed to an "uneventful" summer on the grid, despite record-breaking peak loads and temperatures.
MISO wants FERC to reconsider its decision to let a jointly managed flowgate with SPP stand, with the RTO arguing the North Dakota cryptomining facility burdening the line is SPP’s responsibility alone.
CAISO described to stakeholders how it will apply the Extended Day-Ahead Market transmission revenue recovery mechanism to its own balancing authority area.
NYISO proposed to increase the Rate Schedule 1 carryover to $5 million, while the Installed Capacity Working Group discussed different ways to incentivize transmission security via the markets.
The dispute between Exelon and Constellation Energy continued to play out in FERC, as the latter and others protested a series of filings from the former’s utilities seeking to implement new rules for co-locating data centers at power plants in their territories
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang explained why AI is driving such high demand for electricity and how it could benefit the power grid, and society more generally, in the near future.
MISO, PJM and SPP have failed for years to find a suitable replacement for a 20-year-old system reference they use to portion out flow rights on their system, the so-called freeze date.
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