FERC has asked for comments on the pros and cons of six potential rule changes, proposed by NIPSCO, intended to push PJM and MISO to create cross-border transmission projects.

Two competing transmission developers are challenging selection of Dominion and FirstEnergy by PJM to resolve reliability problems near Pratts, Va.

PJM planners said they will announce their revised recommendation to address stability problems at the Artificial Island nuclear complex at a special TEAC meeting April 28.

A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on April 9, 2015.

More than a decade after the MISO-PJM seam was formed, no cross-border projects have been approved and built, NIPSCO said.

Five transmission projects intended to serve New York City and respond to a potential nuclear plant closure suffered setbacks as a divided FERC rejected the developers’ cost allocation proposals and reduced their requested returns on equity.

DP&L is protesting a $106 million transmission project by Dominion under PJM’s 2015 RTEP because of a change in how the project’s costs will be allocated.

Under questioning from MISO board members, senior RTO officials defended their support for the $200 million controversial out-of-cycle requests by Entergy.

MISO and PJM have identified what lower-voltage flowgate projects could be done quickly and cheaply on their own sides of the seam.

A divided FERC accepted the second regional compliance filing by ISO-NE to implement Order 1000, a filing that had languished for more than a year.