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November 15, 2024

Transmission Planning

Divide Evident Between SPP Tx Owners, Users
SPP transmission owners overwhelmingly endorsed voting items favorable to their companies, much to the consternation of other members.
Counterflow: FERC Order 1000: Need More of Good Thing
In his latest column, Steve Huntoon argues in favor of FERC Order 1000 — and against the many exceptions RTOs have carved out of it.
SPP Briefs: Week of June 28
SPP stakeholders spent two hours discussing the need for a congestion study in the Texas Panhandle, only to determine that more discussion is needed.
MACRUC Panelists Debate Transmission Needs, Costs
Panelists at MACRUC discussed the balance between upgrading an aging transmission grid and limiting the costs of those upgrades.
ITC ‘Tour’ Includes Call for Increased Tx Investment
ITC Holdings offered a rare look into its Michigan control room as part of a company update and appeal for increased investment in transmission.
FERC Tentatively OKs New MISO-PJM Project Type
FERC approved a proposal by PJM and MISO to create a new category of interregional projects while cautioning that the measure could see revisions.
Load Blocks TO Effort to Delay PJM Tx-Replacement Talks
An update on the PJM Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force at the end of the Markets and Reliability Committee meeting became contentious.
ISO-NE PAC Briefs: June 21, 2017
At last week's ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee meeting, Eversource presented evidence of woodpecker damage and decaying support structures.
CAISO Seeks to Drop Outdated Planning Role
CAISO last week proposed to eliminate from its Tariff an annual state transmission concept plan that it says is obsolete due to FERC Order 1000.
DOE Approves Emergency Dispatch of Yorktown Units
PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.

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