Transmission owners told FERC that limiting the RTO participation adder would reduce grid investments while ratepayers called the proposal long overdue.

Transmission projects that have been approved by RTOs or recommended to regulators would boost GDP by $42 billion, according to industry trade group WIRES.

Grid planners must abandon narrow categorizations of transmission projects to allow broader cost allocation, speakers at WIRES meeting said.

FERC voted to approve a supplemental NOPR that would scale back a transmission rate adder designed to encourage utilities to join RTOs.

FERC spent its last open meeting during President Trump’s tenure welcoming a new member and rejecting proposed orders by outgoing Chairman James Danly.

FERC’s proposed new approach to awarding transmission incentives drew some support but also generated much sticker shock among stakeholders.

California Public Utilities Commission members criticized FERC’s proposal to double its transmission incentive adder and make the adders easier to get.

FERC proposed a new approach to awarding transmission incentives and a doubling of the adder for participating in an RTO.