ISO-NE presented a new draft of the competitive transmission request for proposals template for stakeholder review at the Planning Advisory Committee.

Several projects in Maine have withdrawn from the interconnection queue since the second Maine Resource Integration Study began, the ISO-NE PAC learned.

ISO-NE projects net installed capacity requirements will increase and procedures could be needed to overcome a shortage of “operable” capacity.

Two of three economic study requests presented at ISO-NE’s Planning Advisory Committee meeting pertained to offshore wind development.

Ten transmission upgrades have been placed in service in New England since October, ISO-NE engineer Jon Breard told the RTO’s Planning Advisory Committee.

Energy security continues to be a critical reliability issue for New England as ISO-NE develops its 2019 Regional System Plan.

ISO-NE kicked off its formal annual review of the transmission system to delineate zones for Forward Capacity Auction 14.

The ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee discussed the Regional System Plan, Eversource's work replacing aging transmission towers and the EIPC.

ISO-NE forecasts a net installed capacity requirement value of 34,000 MW for capacity commitment period 2023/24, officials told the PAC.

Only six of 32 interconnection requests studied by ISO-NE in its initial test of its new queue clustering methodology have moved on.