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By Tom Kleckner AUSTIN, Texas — ERCOT staff said its preliminary analysis of Lubbock Power & Light’s integration into the Texas grid reveals as much as a $66 million increase in production costs to serve the additional 430 MW of load. | ERCOT However, those costs will be offset to...

AUSTIN, Texas — ERCOT stakeholders last week unanimously endorsed Oncor and American Electric Power’s 345-kV Far West Texas Project that addresses continued load growth southwest of Odessa, Texas. Since 2010, the area has seen annual load growth of about 8%, driven by increases in the region’s oil and natural gas...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Planning Committee on Wednesday held its first special session on cost caps and other cost-containment provisions for competitive transmission bids. The RTO expects that any recommended procedure changes that are identified by the sessions will be incorporated in the new Manual...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO and PJM are evaluating eight proposed interregional market efficiency projects, but a supplemental project by American Electric Power could undermine most of the proposals. MISO and PJM received three upgrade and five greenfield proposals for three congested flowgates ranging from $1 million to $198 million.

By Michael Kuser WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — ISO-NE is working to adopt clustering methodology, already used by every other ISO/RTO in the country, to speed the development of new transmission capacity, particularly to help free wind power trapped in Maine. Transmission bottlenecks that prevent Maine’s wind generation from reaching load centers...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Mike Bryson, PJM’s vice president of operations, announced at last week’s Markets and Reliability Committee meeting that a scheduled vote on new pseudo-tie provisions would be postponed because of ongoing negotiations with MISO. Members were expecting to be asked to endorse several items related to creating a...

Below is a summary of the issues scheduled to be brought to a vote at the Markets and Reliability Committee on Thursday. The Members Committee held its monthly meeting last week at PJM’s Annual Meeting. (See related coverage, PJM Annual Meeting Celebrates RTO’s First 90 Years.) Each item is listed...

By Amanda Durish Cook Texas regulators’ decision on the applicability of state and local right of first refusal (ROFR) laws could influence the selection of who builds more than 20 projects proposed for MISO’s 2017 Transmission Expansion Plan, RTO officials said last week. MISO has no opinion on whether Texas...

By Michael Kuser The Conservation Law Foundation last week asked ISO-NE to override its member states and conduct a study to determine transmission needs driven by state renewable energy and carbon reduction policies. In a letter May 16, CLF Senior Attorney David Ismay criticized a May 1 submission from the...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO has made two changes to its newest future scenario in its annual Transmission Expansion Plan, adding more renewables and possible nuclear retirements to capture distributed energy trends and distinguish them from a continued fleet future. The RTO bumped up the renewable target on its distributed and...