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November 15, 2024

Transmission Operations

Hurricanes Steal ‘Baseload’ Thunder at Grid Resilience Hearing
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma made climate change the backdrop for a House energy committee hearing last week on grid resilience.
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DOE Panel Hears Results of Academies’ Resilience Study
DOE's Electricity Advisory Committee heard recommendations from a National Academies' study on ways to prepare for “large-area, long-duration” outages.
SPP
SPP Seams Steering Committee Briefs: Sept. 6, 2017
SPP stakeholders endorsed a proposed interregional project to be developed in partnership with MISO, despite the project’s dim prospects.
PJM
Post-‘Wheel’ Changes Spark PJM Member Concerns
PJM stakeholders are finding that the elimination of the Con Ed-PSEG "wheel" is not freeing up transmission capacity as expected.
Critics Protest PJM Dynamic Transfers Plan
PJM’s proposal to create standardized contracts for establishing dynamic transfers with other balancing authority areas has provoked opposition.
AEP
Public Utility Commission of Texas Briefs: Aug. 31, 2017
The Texas PUC consented to a list of 36 issues to be contested related to SWEPCO’s costs associated with parent AEP’s massive Wind Catcher project.
MISO-PJM Markets Meeting Addresses Seams Issues
PJM and MISO provided updates on proposed pro forma pseudo-tie agreements, the “freeze date” on transmission rights and targeted transmission upgrades.
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: Aug. 24, 2017
With Hurricane Harvey approaching, ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee focused on three tabled revision requests before scattering to their homes and work.
Grid Operators Manage Solar Eclipse
U.S. grid operators, the ISOs and RTOs across the country, were well prepared for the first continent-wide total solar eclipse in nearly a century.
PUCT Briefs: Aug. 17, 2017
The Texas PUC (PUCT) has scheduled a second staff-led workshop for Oct. 13 on price formation issues in the ERCOT market.

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