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By Amanda Durish Cook MISO is recommending a new version of a transmission project intended to alleviate constraints in the West of the Atchafalaya Basin (WOTAB) area straddling Texas and Louisiana, but some stakeholders are balking at assumptions underpinning the proposal. The $129.7 million project involves construction of a new...

ERCOT’s latest resource adequacy forecasts project the Texas grid will have sufficient installed generating capacity this fall and winter, despite the destruction wrought by Hurricane Harvey. Pete Warnken, ERCOT’s manager of resource adequacy, said staff studied several scenarios that could affect the availability of generating resources. The results were favorable.

Stakeholders will have 15 days to comment on ISO-NE’s reorganized transmission planning guide, which will reduce the existing guide’s more than two dozen sections to four. It will be organized like a transmission needs assessment or solutions study report: Introduction; Modeling Assumptions; Reliability Criteria and Guidelines; and Analysis Methodology. Lead...

WOODSTOCK, Vt. — ISO-NE officials came to Vermont on Thursday to discuss how FERC Order 1000 has affected transmission planning in the region. George | © RTO Insider ISO-NE Vice President for External Affairs and Corporate Communications Anne George gave a presentation on the grid operator’s role in implementing Order...

SPP stakeholders last week endorsed a proposed interregional project to be developed in partnership with MISO, despite the project’s dim prospects. The Seams Steering Committee unanimously agreed with staff’s recommendation to endorse the $5.2 million Split Rock-Lawrence project in South Dakota, identified through the interregional process. It would have been...

By Rory D. Sweeney When Consolidated Edison last year canceled a decades-old arrangement with Public Service Electric and Gas to wheel 1,000 MW of power from upstate New York to New York City via northern New Jersey, the move appeared to free up transmission capacity in the northeast corner of...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. and Michael Kuser ISO-NE hopes to open a window in November for Maine wind generators interested in joining a cluster interconnection system impact study. The RTO filed its proposed clustering methodology for FERC approval on Sept. 1, requesting approval by Nov. 1 (ER17-2421). The filing culminates...

By Rory D. Sweeney PJM’s proposal to create standardized contracts for establishing dynamic transfers with other balancing authority areas has provoked opposition from market participants, a neighboring ISO and the Independent Market Monitors for both PJM and MISO. Critics of the proposed pro forma agreements for pseudo-tied resources filed protests...

IRVING, Texas — The Gulf Coast Power Association’s fourth annual SPP Regional Conference last week drew more than 130 registrations, but most from the Houston area and those involved in Hurricane Harvey restoration efforts were unable to attend, cutting the audience by almost 20%. GCPA Executive Director Tom Foreman said...

The Public Utility Commission of Texas last week gave preliminary approval to Oncor’s and Sharyland Utilities’ proposed swap of $400 million in assets. The order lists a set of 27 issues to be discussed before the PUC renders a decision, which is due by Feb. 1, 2018 (Docket 47469). Oncor...