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SPP and MISO continue to study seven potential joint transmission projects across their seam, but much of their focus is now turning to developing the 2017 joint study by next April. Staff from the two RTOs told their Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee on Friday that they have already begun...
CARMEL, Ind. — MISO planners approved an expedited project request in northeast Arkansas and are evaluating three others in Michigan, officials told the Planning Advisory Committee last week. The $3 million Hickman Central project, submitted by Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. in October, will include a new substation, a quarter-mile line...
Members Request Additional Clarity on Recommended Tie-Line Timeline
Dec 19, 2016
VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s proposed timeline for reviewing tie-line requests will need another round of revisions before members are comfortable with endorsing it. Two clarifications precluded members from bringing it to an endorsement vote at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. The first concern was an implication that the applicant...
By Michael Brooks FERC on Thursday proposed changes to its pro forma large generator interconnection rules intended to increase certainty and transparency for new resources (RM17-8). The commission issued the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in response to feedback gathered at a May technical conference and in subsequent comments. (See Generators,...
By Amanda Durish Cook Michigan’s Upper Peninsula will get its own utility, two new generating plants — and maybe additional transmission — following actions by regulators and MISO officials seeking to address the region’s reliability and cost concerns. MISO said Wednesday it has committed to a study examining the benefits...
The PJM Board of Managers last week approved almost $260 million in transmission reliability projects. The projects in the 2016 Regional Transmission Expansion Plan include: New baseline reliability upgrades ($158.1 million); Changes to previously approved upgrades (net increase of $47.3 million); and Facilities, network upgrades and withdrawal of canceled facilities...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. FERC last week upheld its February 2016 ruling that projects solely addressing a transmission owner’s local planning criteria are not eligible for regional cost allocation, rejecting rehearing requests from Dominion Resources and others. “Cost allocation is not an exact science, and there may be ‘multiple just...
SPP says it has successfully implemented system changes required by FERC Order 809, which ordered RTOs to improve the alignment of their market schedules with those of interstate gas pipelines (RM14-2). SPP’s changes took effect Sept. 30. “After roughly two months of operational experience, it appears it’s successful so far,”...
By Robert Mullin CAISO said it will use a recently approved West-wide system reliability measure to ensure that its grid operators have the ability to send power into Southern California when Aliso Canyon gas pipeline restrictions constrain gas-fired generation output. Peak Reliability — the West’s reliability coordinator — endorsed the...
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