The West needs new transmission near term and far more in the long term for California to meets its goal to provide customers with 100% clean energy.

Developers of transmission projects that would send wind power across the Western Interconnection made cases at the Western Planning Regions Interregional Coordination Meeting.

Regulators in New Mexico have approved Pattern’s Corona Wind Farm Project but not the SunZia transmission project that would send Corona's output to CAISO.

FERC approved negotiated rate authority for SunZia, a proposed 515-mile transmission project.