The Pacific Offshore Wind Summit addressed the challenges of a West Coast wind industry that needs improved ports, transmission and enormous floating turbines.

Nonprofits pushed Entergy to embrace large scale transmission expansion to adjust to more renewable fleets at an Entergy Regional State Committee Working Group.

The New York Public Service Commission approved requiring offshore wind project developers to provide “mesh-ready” transmission plans in their bids.

PJM launched a multiyear initiative on the increasing integration of renewables with the release of a study on the transformation of generation.

Utility and RTO officials at NARUC’s annual meeting expressed hope for FERC’s recent ANOPR aimed at improving regional transmission planning.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved the RTO’s third competitive transmission project, awarding a 345-kV line’s construction to NextEra Energy Transmission.

SPP says that consolidating its transmission planning processes would save $9 million annually and produce a more holistic view of its transmission needs.

Eversource Energy will replace underground conductors in central Massachusetts to mitigate environmental and reliability issues.

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.

Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.