The PUCT granted ERCOT and SPP a 5-week extension before reporting back on how they'll study Lubbock Power & Light’s move to ERCOT.

ISO-NE presented five resource scenarios it will evaluate in its 2016 Economic Study at the Planning Advisory Committee last week.

Two Arkansas landowner groups filed suit to block the 700-mile HVDC Plains & Eastern Clean Line project, questioning the legality of the project’s approval and its right to use eminent domain.

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) nears the launch of the new gas-day timeline and enhanced combined cycle software as stakeholders approve a minimum threshold for competitive projects under Order 1000.

The PJM Planning Committee and Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee (TEAC) considered the loss of the Quad Cities nuclear plant and discussed Order 1000 rules, $1.1 billion in end-of-life projects for PSE&G and the third RTEP window of the year.

PJM will hold a meeting Monday to seek stakeholder input on options for replacing the Con Ed-PSEG “wheel.” NYISO meeting in September.

The PJM Board OKd more than $636 million in transmission projects, including a $320 million market efficiency project — its largest ever

FERC is giving until Sept. 2 to provide comments on recommended changes to Order 1000 following a June technical conference.

SPP and MISO are inching closer to agreement on a second joint transmission study on their seams, though they continue to disagree how “targeted” a targeted study should be.

A settlement between PJM and transmission owners over the procedure for cost allocation of major projects is receiving criticism from stakeholders.