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January 11, 2026

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ITC Midwest
UCS: Climate Change Induced Worst MISO Outages of the Decade
The Union of Concerned Scientists said MISO’s most devastating power outages in the last decade can be attributed to an increasingly unstable climate and compounding weather events.
AEP
MISO Picks AEP, Berkshire’s Joint Venture to build $1.2B 765-kV Line
MISO selected a 50/50 joint venture between Transource and Berkshire Hathaway Energy Transmission to build a $1.2 billion, 765-kV project from the RTO’s second long-range transmission portfolio.
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GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Let Large Loads Set up Consumer Regulated Utilities
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced a bill that would exempt large loads served on islanded systems from federal economic regulations for the electric industry.
Black Hills Energy
Black Hills Completes $350M Tx Project as New BA Prepares to Join CAISO’s WEIM

Black Hills Energy completed construction on a 260-mile, $350 million transmission expansion project that will interconnect electric systems in Wyoming and South Dakota, while expanding the footprint of CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market.

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CAISO Looks to Remove Stagnant Projects from Interconnection Queue
CAISO has proposed new interconnection criteria to flush out stale projects from a generator interconnection queue that has reached record volumes in recent years.
IESO
Ontario OKs Underwater HVDC Line to Toronto
Ontario approved IESO’s proposed $1.5 billion HVDC line under Lake Ontario, which planners say is needed to meet a potential doubling of Toronto’s electricity demand by 2050.
Stantec
MISO Fields 50 Expedited Tx Project Requests, Recommends Several
Just days into 2026, MISO already has approved or recommended dozens of expedited transmission projects for the 2026 cycle, including a substation project in Indiana that spawned several hundred million dollars in corrective action upgrades.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
BPA Presents Ideas for Updating Commercial Business Model
The Bonneville Power Administration outlined suggested modifications to its commercial business model as the agency explores updating transmission processes.
CEC
Calif. Electricity Consumption Headed off the Charts, CEC Forecast Shows
California’s electricity consumption is projected to increase dramatically over the coming decades due in large part to planned artificial intelligence data centers, although questions remain about how many of those data centers actually will be built.
The Imperial Irrigation District
FERC Defends Order 1920’s Tx Planning Changes Against Appeals
FERC defended Order 1920 against appeals in a brief filed Jan. 5, saying the transmission planning and cost allocation rule is firmly within its authority and builds on previous pathbreaking rulemakings like Orders 888 and 1000.

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