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SPP’s Exit Study Task Force, formed to provide technical support and advice regarding Lubbock Power & Light’s move to ERCOT, conducted its first meeting last week. The Public Utility Commission of Texas asked SPP and ERCOT to work together to study the implications of LP&L’s plans to migrate 430 MW...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — FERC’s Order 1000 is providing savings to ratepayers, but a lack of transparency in RTOs’ competitive solicitations is undermining confidence, and limited opportunities may doom nonincumbent developers, speakers told the Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Energy Forum last week. Weber | © RTO Insider The...

PJM last week laid out a timeline for compliance with the geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard approved by FERC in September. (See FERC Approves GMD Reliability Standard.) The RTO told the Planning Committee it will be required to perform a network vulnerability analysis, and owners of 200-kV and larger transformers must...

By William Opalka NYISO last week forwarded to New York regulators 12 proposals for transmission projects to help the state meet its public policy objectives (16-E-0558). The proposed projects, coming at the start of the ISO’s 2016/17 transmission planning cycle, would provide the state with access to offshore wind resources...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Facing a FERC complaint from transmission customers, MISO last week defended its calculation of sub-regional transfer limits for the 2016/17 Planning Resource Auction and recommended that it continue to use the same numbers for future auctions. The RTO made its recommendation based on stakeholder feedback it...

By Robert Mullin FERC last week accepted Pacific Gas and Electric’s filing for a proposed rate increase under the utility’s transmission owner tariff, but the commission suspended implementation of the increase for five months out of concern that the proposed rates could yield “substantially excessive revenues.” The utility’s filing raised...

SPP stakeholders have recommended the RTO’s leadership reject $114 million in remaining waiver requests for Z2 transmission upgrades. The Z2 Task Force voted 8-4 Friday with four abstentions to “follow the Tariff” and reject all Group B and C waivers. SPP has calculated that Group B transmission customers (those that...

By Robert Mullin CAISO expects to hold its 2017 revenue requirement to this year’s level despite a planned $4.3 million increase in spending driven by rising labor costs, the ISO’s chief financial officer said Thursday. CAISO's revenue requirement — which tracks closely with the ISO's operations and maintenance expenses —...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO and PJM have nearly completed their work on joint operating agreement and tariff language to create the new targeted market efficiency project (TMEP) type, and the RTOs have singled out seven congestion-relieving candidate projects. Four of the possible TMEPs are located at flowgates in Indiana,...

The Members Committee approved by acclamation a rate-increase proposal that struck a balance between allowing for cost increases and providing long-term certainty. Members endorsed the Finance Committee’s unanimous recommendation for a composite rate of $0.36/MWh for two years and then a 2.5% annual increase that will result in a rate...