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DOE's proposal to update efficiency standards for distribution transformers would make supply shortages of the key grid equipment worse, industry argued.

State regulators and others urged FERC to increase oversight of “local” transmission projects while TOs insisted existing cost controls are sufficient.

The U.S. must change permitting processes to deploy federal infrastructure money and ensure CO2 reductions needed to avoid the worst climate change impacts.

House Republicans are moving the first energy permitting bill through Congress, but it lacks any provisions around electric transmission.

Industry speakers at EPSA's Competitive Power Summit focused on the electric industry's transition and the hurdles it must overcome to make it happen.

MISO will likely delay its capacity auction by at least a month after FERC issued a show-cause order regarding a capacity ratio the RTO is required to publish.

FERC issued MISO a show-cause order saying it appeared to violate its tariff by failing to publish a system-wide unforced capacity ratio ahead of its auction.

FERC refused to rehear a case in which PG&E and San Francisco have argued for 18 years over distribution service to San Francisco’s public utility customers.

FERC has approved two Western utilities’ revisions to their transmission formula rate protocols in their response to a show cause proceeding begun last year.

FERC last week granted a petition from a company looking to build an undersea transmission line to Puerto Rico.