FERC Order 1000 is providing savings to ratepayers, but a lack of transparency in RTOs’ competitive solicitations is undermining confidence, speakers told the Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Energy Forum last week.

At the PJM Planning Committee last week, the RTO laid out a timeline for compliance with the geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard approved by FERC.

NYISO forwarded to New York regulators 12 proposals for transmission projects to help the state meet its public policy objectives.

MISO and PJM have nearly completed their work on joint operating agreement and tariff language to create the new targeted market efficiency project (TMEP) type.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

ISO-NE planners last week outlined an analysis that will determine approval of transmission upgrades to accommodate wind development in the Keene Road area in Maine.

The MISO Planning Advisory Committee discussed the second draft of the 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan report and a draft scope for the Regional Transmission Overlay Study.

Stakeholders support the MISO push to revise its cost allocation process for market efficiency projects, but their suggested approaches are a mixed bag.

MISO will file a revised set of interconnection queue changes with FERC on Oct. 21, and this time it says it has “overwhelming” stakeholder support for the changes.

A Rochester-area farm family scored unusual concessions when New York regulators approved a plan for a substation and transmission lines that removed previously approved facilities from their property.