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November 20, 2024

Transmission Planning

Overheard at ACORE Policy Forum 2020
The need for gas peakers and electric transmission and the increasing popularity of hybrid storage projects were recurrent topics at the ACORE Policy Forum.
NextEra Appeals Court Decision on Texas ROFR Law
NextEra subsidiaries appealed a ruling that upheld a Texas law giving incumbent transmission companies the right of first refusal to build power lines.
ISO-NE Study to Chart Transition to Future Grid
ISO-NE and NEPOOL stakeholders are collaborating to study market and reliability issues the region will face as it decarbonizes over the next decades.
CapX2050 Calls for More Tx, Dispatchability in Midwest
The Upper Midwest needs more transmission, more technology and preservation of dispatchable generation for reliability, the CapX2050 study concluded.
SPP Briefs: Week of March 2, 2020
An SPP committee charged with coordinating the RTO’s policy development and recommendations to integrate storage resources took its first steps.
Mass. DOER Explores Transmission for OSW
The Mass. DOER hosted a conference to explore if it should solicit proposals for a coordinated independent transmission network for offshore wind.
Texas PUC Meeting Briefs: Feb. 27, 2020
Public Utility Commission of Texas Chair DeAnn Walker directed staff to open a rulemaking that widens the pool of applicants for ERCOT’s reliability monitor.
Overheard at Infocast’s ERCOT Market Summit
The Infocast ERCOT Market Summit brought together nearly 300 industry representatives and policymakers to discuss the Texas grid and challenges it faces.
FERC OKs Allocations as PJM Adds $237M to RTEP
FERC approved PJM’s updated annual cost responsibility assignments for projects in the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan over the objections of ODEC.
District Court Dismisses Texas ROFR Repeal
A district court dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a Texas law giving incumbent utilities the right of first refusal over transmission projects.

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