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August 14, 2024

Transmission Planning

FERC Electrification Conference Considers Future Grid
The need for uniform EV charging standards and the limits of state efforts to price carbon highlighted FERC’s technical conference on electrification.
Michigan PSC to Decide MTEP 19 Project’s Fate
Mich. regulators will assess a 2019 MISO transmission project to determine whether it should remain in the grid operator’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan.
Biden Admin Announces New Tx Expansion Measures
The U.S. DOT issued guidance on working with its state counterparts to facilitate the use of existing highway rights of way for building transmission lines.
Panel: Grid Planners Must Abandon Silos for Renewable Future
Grid planners must abandon narrow categorizations of transmission projects to allow broader cost allocation, speakers at WIRES meeting said.
SPP Strategic Plan Begins to Take Form
SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee OK'd draft mission, vision and value-proposition statements, a step toward a new strategic plan.
Overheard at GCPA’s MISO-SPP Forum
The Gulf Coast Power Association’s MISO-SPP Forum gathered the RTOs’ leadership and stakeholders for wide-ranging discussion.
SPP MOPC Briefs: April 12-13, 2021
SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee discussed the RTO's generation interconnection backlog and its performance during February's cold snap.
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New Jersey Seeks OSW Transmission Ideas
New Jersey's BPU is looking for transmission solutions to deliver offshore wind energy to the grid as the state plans to deploy 7,500 MW of OSW by 2035.
Glick, Robb Call for Tx Build in West
FERC Chair Richard Glick and NERC CEO James Robb: The West needs to build transmission lines to connect renewable resources to load.
FERC Rejects Mich. Transco’s EV Charging Bid
FERC sided with 2 Mich. utilities in a turf war with METC over its request to spend $15 million on a pilot project to build chargers for long-haul trucks.

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