Interregional transmission planning challenges and the growth of renewable energy, particularly wind power were among the topics of discussion at the 2018 Mid-America Regulatory Conference.

Transmission developers in Mexico often struggle to gain land rights, as they do in the U.S., but for reasons unique to the country's culture and history.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals backed FERC in its revised interpretation of a PJM Tariff provision governing responsibility for transmission upgrades.

GridLiance and Tri-County Electric Cooperative announced they have joined a settlement agreement with AEP related to the company’s proposed Wind Catcher Energy Connection.

FERC denied a complaint from the New Jersey BPU to reallocate the Bergen-Linden Corridor project’s costs, leaving PSEG to pay for most of it.

ERCOT’s legal department again delayed votes endorsing final changes to the grid operator’s bylaws and articles of incorporation.

PJM stakeholders resoundingly endorsed LS Power’s controversial proposal to bring cost containment measures into the RTO’s transmission planning process.

MISO is delaying release of a final draft of its cost allocation redesign for market efficiency projects because of conflicting stakeholder feedback.

MISO and PJM will pursue two separate interregional studies this year to identify potential joint transmission projects, the stakeholders learned during an IPSAC conference call.

Votes on the House floor kept a House Energy Subcommittee hearing on transmission planning to about 90 minutes.