New York utilities have proposed a revised transmission plan that would relieve congestion in the Hudson Valley without obtaining new rights of way.

Two more wind farms have joined a complaint against NIPSCO, asking FERC to cut the $35.8 million bill the utility assessed them for transmission upgrades.

Transmission upgrades of $20 million or more and all “greenfield” proposals will be charged a $30,000 fee under an OA revision approved by the PJM MC.

Wisconsin Energy’s proposed $9.1 billion acquisition of Integrys Energy Group has generated some notable opposition — including Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder.

FERC ordered an evidentiary hearing on a complaint from MISO industrial customers that the 24 transmission owners’ base ROE is unjust and unreasonable.

FERC affirmed its June order reducing the return on equity for the NETOs, ordering the companies to provide refunds from Oct. 1, 2011.

PJM will create a pricing interface in the ATSI Black River area to capture in LMPs operator actions taken to relieve thermal or voltage problems resulting from high loads.

PJM said the Dooms-Lexington 500-kV line in Virginia will begin an extended outage next month and through winter for a rebuild of the 40-mile span.

A round-up of news from the PJM Operating Committee.

PJM has created a closed loop interface to capture the pricing of demand response in a transmission sub-zone spanning the Pennsylvania-Ohio border near New Castle, Pa.