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FERC has approved SPP’s request to change the frequency of its regional cost allocation review (RCAR) from every three years to every six, overruling member objections. The change became effective Oct. 1. Sunflower Electric Power and Mid-Kansas Electric protested the tariff change, saying problems with the RCAR’s study assumptions, analysis...

After two months of significant discussion at various levels of ERCOT’s stakeholder process, the Technical Advisory Committee on Thursday unanimously approved compromise language eliminating the reduction of congestion revenue rights (CRRs), or “deration.” The nodal protocol revision request (NPRR821) eliminates the deration process for resource node-to-hub or load zone CRRs.

By Michael Brooks More than half of the $24.3 billion in transmission projects in PJM since 2012 were unneeded to comply with RTO or federal reliability requirements and were not subject to rigorous review, according to a report commissioned by American Municipal Power. At a teleconference Friday, AMP used the...

By Amanda Durish Cook After a second full review of the 2011 slate of multi-value transmission projects, MISO has concluded that although project costs are rising, benefits still far outpace them. MISO said its multi-value project (MVP) portfolio creates anywhere from $12 billion to $52 billion in net benefits. Total...

By Amanda Durish Cook Stakeholder sectors have eschewed MISO’s suggestion that they apply equal importance to each of the RTO’s four 15-year future scenarios used for next year’s transmission planning, instead giving more weight to the potential for a slow-and-steady evolution of the generation fleet. As a result, MISO’s 2018...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — Discussion at PJM’s Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force has not advanced much in the four meetings the group has held since being reactivated in late July, but the rhetoric has softened. Tatum | © RTO Insider The PJM Transmission Owners, their...

RENSSELAER, N.Y. — NYISO will soon announce the formation of a carbon pricing task force, CEO Brad Jones told the Management Committee on Wednesday. The task force will “provide guidance on implementation, to explore how fast we can move forward on these issues,” Jones said. NYISO in August released a...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO is seeking stakeholder guidance on how to forecast the probable locations of future renewable, energy storage and distributed energy resources in order to better inform its transmission planning. To prepare for MISO’s 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan modeling, stakeholders had asked the RTO to update probable...

By Jason Fordney Last week saw a handful of CAISO-related developments at FERC, including the commission’s suspension of a Pacific Gas and Electric transmission rate request and approval of Portland General Electric (PGE)’s authority to charge market-based rates in the Western Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) ahead of the utility’s Oct.

By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC last week rejected a request by several SPP members that they be exempted from congestion and marginal loss charges under a grandfathered contract signed before they joined the RTO (ER14-2850-008, ER14-2851-008). The commission ruled Sept. 26 that Missouri River Energy Services, Basin Electric Power Cooperative,...