Columnist Steve Huntoon is disillusioned by FERC's retreat from Order 1000's requirements for competition in transmission.

PJM consumer advocates and transmission owners appear headed for a showdown over a proposed review of the RTO’s use of designated entity agreements.

FERC has approved SPP tariff revisions that establish an annual process for developing a single set of uniform zonal planning criteria.

The company behind a Massachusetts gas plant agrees to pay a $17 million penalty and hand back $26 million in profits after FERC found that it misled ISO-NE.

FERC has granted MISO an additional three months on two temporary waivers of its tariff after the grid operator hit delays on software upgrades.

FERC’s interconnection proposal won wide praise, but some generation developers were dismayed that the commission failed to address participant funding.

Frustration over the lack of transmission growth and interregional planning mixed with optimism over FERC’s recent rulemakings at the Transmission Summit.

Industrial energy users and other ratepayers are balking at FERC’s proposal to abandon Order 1000’s competition measures.

Time is running out to build the infrastructure needed to meet climate challenges, transmission planners, generation developers and others warned.

FERC Commissioner Mark Christie said the agency's transmission NOPR gives the states plenty of flexibility to plan their public policy-focused projects.