A review of what we learned at the PJM Planning Committee and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee meetings on Thursday, November 3rd.

Panelists at last week's Organization of PJM States Inc. meeting discussed the challenges of controlling transmission project costs.

Fellow Mortals Hospital lost its case against American Transmission Co., as a Wisconsin judge decided that ATC has the right to remove trees.

MISO defended its calculation of sub-regional transfer limits for the 2016/17 Planning Resource Auction to stakeholders last week, recommending that it continue to use the same numbers for future auctions.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

SPP and ERCOT developers have worked together to produce version 2.0 of the Macomber Map, a visualization tool for control rooms.

MISO will file a revised set of interconnection queue changes with FERC on Oct. 21, and this time it says it has “overwhelming” stakeholder support for the changes.

FERC OK'd a rule requiring grid operators to protect against geomagnetic disturbances as well as measures on reliability monitoring and frequency control.

PJM and NYISO officials said that an analysis indicates a reduced version of the current pattern is the best resolution when the Con Ed-PSEG ‘wheel’ ends.

The Valley Electric Association board of directors approved an agreement to sell the cooperative’s 230-kV transmission network to GridLiance for about $200 million.