FERC should exert more authority in non-RTO areas and ensure oversight of transmission projects where competition is unworkable, says Kentucky's PSC chair.

In a workshop, FERC commissioners and stakeholders debated the pros and cons of requiring minimum transfer capability between regions to promote reliability.

FERC approved revisions to PJM’s tariff that assign the costs of necessary transmission upgrades for installation of offshore wind in New Jersey to the state.

The Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission convened during NARUC’s meeting to talk local project review and best practices on cost management.

WECC said it struck “gold” from the details it gleaned from stakeholder interviews on the greatest challenges to transmission planning in the West.

Kansas regulators have awarded a CCN to NextEra Energy Transmission Southwest for the competitive project it intends to build in Kansas and Missouri.

LS Power was unsuccessful with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in separate attempts to force MISO to open more projects to competition.

Stakeholders are concerned over the comments MISO plans to submit on FERC’s recently proposed transmission planning rule.

MISO received FERC permission to exclude certain transmission projects from competitive bidding eligibility.

Consumer advocates, industrial consumers and municipals asked FERC to force PJM to require incumbent TOs to sign agreements on immediate-need projects.