Transmission owners found themselves on the defensive throughout FERC's technical conference on transmission planning and cost management.

Stakeholders endorsed PJM’s proposals for mitigating and avoiding designating projects as critical infrastructure under NERC reliability standards.

PJM stakeholders at the MRC rejected two proposals aimed at addressing a dispute over black start units' capital recovery factor.

PJM incumbent TOs won a victory as the Planning Committee endorsed a new regional targeted market efficiency project process that would be excluded from competition.

PJM’s transmission owners gave their response to the push to open end-of-life projects to competition and regional planning at a special meeting.

Stakeholders urged the PJM board to ensure the “grid of the future” is planned regionally rather than controlled by individual transmission owners.

PJM stakeholders debated for nearly two hours over three proposals to address transmission owners’ spending on end-of-life projects.

PJM plans to expand the use of synchrophasors and formalize their placements — currently voluntary — into the Regional Transmission Expansion Plan.

PJM told the Planning Committee it will share unredacted project proposals with the Monitor, despite confidentiality concerns raised by transmission owners.

PJM’s Planning Committee will consider whether the RTO must develop document language to deal with mitigation of existing and future infrastructure.