Industry leaders, experts, policymakers and regulators gathered near the nation’s capital to discuss how recent FERC orders will affect regional transmission planning, cost allocation, permitting and other issues.

The industry must improve planning to account for changing resources and new load patterns, said experts at Infocast’s Transmission & Interconnection Summit.

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

Transmission planners see an increasing role for grid-enhancing technologies but disagree over whether they will be transformative or limited.

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.