Grid operators may need to rethink transmission planning for offshore wind, panelists told the Business Network for Offshore Wind’s 2019 International Partnering Forum.

A draft of NYISO’s annual load and capacity forecast shows EV usage driving a 66% increase in New York’s projected baseline peak demand growth.

NYISO’s Board of Directors selected two transmission projects intended to address persistent congestion and deliver renewable energy to population centers.

The SPP-MISO Joint Planning Committee has voted to begin a new coordinated system plan this year, SPP staff told the RTO’s Seams Steering Committee.

Despite the ongoing shift to renewables, the Eastern Interconnection has sufficient inertia to maintain system frequency for at least the next five years.

Stakeholders gave MISO leadership mixed signals on what they expect from seams policy, though they agreed the RTO shouldn’t strive for exacting consistency in how it deals with different neighbors.

Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee.

The city of Wilmington, Del., will be retired as the meeting site for the Markets and Reliability and the Members committees, PJM stakeholders agreed.

MISO's Steering Committee instructed the Planning Advisory Committee to revisit non-transmission owners operating storage-as-transmission assets.

Commentator Steve Huntoon doubts that even a proposed $2.5 billion MISO-to-PJM HVDC line can raise Big Transmission from the dead.