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By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s Planning Committee held a special session last week to begin soliciting stakeholder input on changes to the RTO’s selection process for Order 1000 projects. The goal of the ongoing sessions is to develop consensus on how decisions are made prior to...

By Tom Kleckner SPP last week released tentative billing statements for transmission upgrades for 2008 to 2016, while its Z2 Task Force developed six options for addressing Group B and Group C waiver requests. The task force hopes to recommend one of the options for handling $114 million in upgrades...

By Suzanne Herel and Rich Heidorn Jr. PJM must develop a new method for allocating auction revenue rights that doesn’t consider extinct generators, FERC ruled last week. The commission said PJM had correctly diagnosed that its existing rules for ARRs and financial transmission rights were no longer just and reasonable...

By William Opalka ALBANY, N.Y. — A Rochester-area farm family scored unusual concessions on Thursday when state regulators approved a plan for a substation and power lines that removed previously approved facilities from their property (11-T-0534). The New York Public Service Commission approved a modified Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and...

By Amanda Durish Cook ST. PAUL, Minn. — MISO’s 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan recommends 394 projects totaling $2.8 billion. The preliminary MTEP 16, unveiled at the Sept. 13 System Planning Committee of the Board of Directors, proposes: 114 baseline reliability projects valued at $734 million; 27 generator interconnection projects at...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Sept. 7 Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting. The seven needs in the coordinated study scope include four projects suggested by both RTOs and three proposals from...

By William Opalka FERC on Thursday dismissed a complaint by transmission developers who were excluded from New York public policy projects under Order 1000 (EL16-84). The developers had asked the commission in June to order New York regulators to begin a new process to evaluate transmission upgrades to alleviate congestion...

A task force developing cost allocation rules for seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed last week to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff. SPP attorney Matt Harward will help guide the staff effort to produce the revised business practice,...

By Rory D. Sweeney In a move that elated New Jersey’s ratepayer advocates, FirstEnergy announced Thursday it is withdrawing its request for state public utility designation for its all-transmission spin-off. FE said it made the decision because it was unlikely to win approval in time to meet the its Jan.

By Tom Kleckner IRVING, Texas — SPP’s two newest stakeholder groups are taking a look at the future, while also stepping almost a decade into the past to resolve the sticky issue of Tariff Attachment Z2. Mike Wise © RTO Insider The Z2 Task Force last week began its work...