FERC accepted penalties against a number of entities, including Entergy and the Tennessee Valley Authority, for violations of NERC reliability standards.

FERC granted GridLiance West incentive rate treatments for upgrades to a Nevada transmission line that connects to the CAISO grid.

FERC approved a package of modifications developed by CAISO for the EIM, and issued several other decisions related to Western states and energy markets.

FERC rejected a CAISO proposal intended to prevent small transmission owners from shouldering the costs for network upgrades.

FERC approved GridLiance West’s acquisition of Valley Electric Association’s 230-kV transmission network in a deal valued at about $200 million.

The CAISO Board approved a generator interconnection plan designed to prevent smaller transmission owners from footing the costs for network upgrades.

Stakeholders have lingering questions about the CAISO interconnection proposal to protect small transmission owners from bearing the costs of upgrades.

The CAISO proposal would prevent small transmission owners from bearing high interconnection costs, a circumstance faced by Valley Electric.

The CAISO Board of Governors approved the membership of GridLiance after their purchase of the Valley Electric Association’s 230-kV transmission network.

CAISO has narrowed the scope of a generator interconnection plan that seeks to protect smaller transmission owners from disproportionately high costs.