Transmission Rates
Clean energy advocates mounted new attacks on the Southeast Energy Exchange Market, saying it would offer a fraction of the benefits of an organized market.
FERC will reconsider whether the 1% de minimis threshold and netting provisions of PJM's DFAX method result in fair transmission cost allocations.
Transmission owners told FERC that limiting the RTO participation adder would reduce grid investments while ratepayers called the proposal long overdue.
MISO says voltage stability and thermal issues will get out of hand within the decade unless it instates some transmission solutions.
FERC rejected SPP's proposed Tariff revision establishing a cost-allocation waiver process related to the RTO's highway/byway methodology.
Without any financial incentives from the federal level, utilities are unlikely to make the huge investments needed to deploy grid-enhancing technologies.
Utilities are seeking Congressional help to defeat FERC’s proposal to eliminate the transmission rate adder for remaining in RTOs.
MISO is testing a new cost-sharing plan for members that use the regional transfer limit linking its Midwest and South regions.
MISO and SPP state regulators are trying to inventory the instances and costs of duplicate transmission charges along their seams to mitigate rate pancaking.
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