A panel at WIRES’ virtual spring conference focused on the challenges of integrating and managing DERs after FERC Order 2222.

The U.S. DOT issued guidance on working with its state counterparts to facilitate the use of existing highway rights of way for building transmission lines.

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

U.S. transmission system requires restructuring and greater alignment with public policy goals, industry insiders said at WIRES’ fall meeting.

An Eastern Interconnection "macro grid" would produce 6 million jobs, cut CO2 and save consumers more than $100 billion, a new study says.

Industry needs to improve its ties to state officials, maintain vigilance on cybersecurity, and develop plans to operate control rooms remotely, NERC CEO Jim Robb said.

Panelists during WIRES’ virtual Summer Meeting discussed the impact of the pandemic on transmission rate structures, Order 1000 and FERC's incentives NOPR.

FERC’s new method for calculating transmission ROE drew requests for rehearing from TOs perplexed it would use a MISO-centric order to set national policy.

SPP's Monitor released a paper detailing a study of generator self-commitments in the market, yielding evidence they exert downward pressure on prices.

Though it was hosted at the Canadian Embassy, the talks at the International Transmission Summit centered on interregional transmission lines in the U.S.