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August 15, 2024

Transmission Planning

FERC Report Touts High-voltage Benefits
Development of new high-voltage transmission lines could provide benefits for the U.S. electricity system, FERC said in a recent report.
New York Ponders Planning an Offshore Grid
A new study estimates New York would save $500 million through a planned transmission strategy for its next 7,200 MW of offshore wind.
NEPOOL Reviews `Future Grid’ Study Requests
NEPOOL members are trying to cull and combine nine proposals for the Transition to the Future Grid study that ISO-NE has agreed to perform.
SPP Board of Directors/MC Briefs: July 28, 2020
SPP‘s Board of Directors approved a recommendation that resolves uncertainty over the weighting of futures in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.
ERCOT Technical Advisory Committee Briefs: July 29, 2020
ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee approved a standard contract term for emergency response service and some energy storage to use internal sensors.
WIRES Conference Talks Order 1000, Tx Incentives
Panelists during WIRES’ virtual Summer Meeting discussed the impact of the pandemic on transmission rate structures, Order 1000 and FERC's incentives NOPR.
FERC Upholds Cost Allocation on MISO BRPs
FERC rejected transmission customers’ complaint over MISO’s seven-year-old cost allocation plan for baseline reliability projects.
MISO Cost Allocation Plan Wins OK on 3rd Round
The third time’s a charm for MISO getting FERC approval of its sweeping, cost-allocation overhaul for large economic transmission projects.
ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee Briefs: July 22, 2020
ISO-NE presented the Planning Advisory Committee with revised study scenarios and threshold prices for the 2020 Economic Study requested by National Grid.
PJM Stakeholders Debate Market Efficiency Proposals
PJM stakeholders continued debating changes to processes used to plan market efficiency transmission projects, including a new regional targeted process.

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