PJM stakeholders endorsed expanding the use of synchrophasors and making them a requirement for certain projects under the RTEP.

SPP and MISO staff shared with the SPP Seams Steering Committee additional details on the yearlong transmission study the RTOs will soon pursue.

Two recently announced special transmission planning efforts could have MISO members soon stringing miles of new wires across the footprint.

FERC left MISO transmission owners’ ability to self-fund network upgrades intact over a protest from AWEA and the dissent of Commissioner Richard Glick.

MISO and SPP announced a yearlong transmission study to identify projects with “comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient upgrades.”

Stakeholders asked FERC to reverse its order accepting the PJM Transmission Owners sector’s Tariff amendments governing end-of-life projects.

The PJM Planning and Transmission Expansion Advisory committees discussed the proposed installed reserve margin for 2021/22.

SPP says it will begin allowing employees to return to its corporate headquarters in October.

NEPOOL and NESCOE are hiring Peter Flynn, a former National Grid executive, to serve as administrator of the Transition to the Future Grid project.

FERC rejected SPP’s proposed Tariff revision to develop uniform local transmission planning criteria.