A group of former FERC chairs said the commission should issue new transmission planning rules to help decarbonize and provide resilience & energy security.

SPP staff and stakeholders have added an accelerated decarbonization future to the RTO’s 20-year long-term assessment.

The New York PSC approved filings by the state's utilities implementing cost recovery and sharing plans with ratepayers for storage resources.

New York state energy agencies released a study urging faster permitting, planning and approval processes to build transmission to accommodate renewables.

PJM stakeholders heard another first read of the RTO’s proposals for mitigating and avoiding critical infrastructure designations under NERC rules.

FERC accepted Tri-State G&T’s Tariff modifications to its large generator and small generation interconnection procedures and its proposed queue reform.

SPP is attempting to balance staff and stakeholder time spent on analysis and studies with the need to adapt to a changing business environment.

SPP staff unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue.

A recent report concluded that a Western resource adequacy program could require state regulators & utilities to relinquish some control over IRP processes.

MISO said it will approach SPP about improving the processes underpinning affected system studies in response to stakeholders’ persistent calls for change.