Developers held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the TransWest Express line, intended to carry 3 GW of wind power from Wyoming to California.

MISO appears set on restricting the interconnection requests it will accept and will present a straw proposal at the July 19 Planning Advisory Committee meeting.

The clean energy transition, the technology and funding to make it happen, were the focus of the Edison Electric Institute’s annual forum.

A comfortable result for MISO's 2023/24 auction does not guarantee sufficient capacity during the coming summer, executives said.

MISO membership and executives last week discussed how to hasten the construction of more than 40 GW of generation projects that have permission to connect to the grid but haven’t been built.

New England utilities have sought information on the agreement between ISO-NE and the Mystic power plant in Massachusetts.

ISO-NE told its Planning Advisory Committee that decarbonization may require increased dispatchable generation, storage and capacity.

The Western summer reliability outlook is better than in recent years, but shortfalls could arise because of supply chain problems or scarce imports, WECC says.

At Infocast’s Transmission & Interconnection Summit, experts said interconnection requests continue to grow and grid operators have tried to keep pace.

Clean Path NY asked to be included in any inflation adjustments approved for Tier 1 RECs, saying generators would otherwise shun its transmission project.