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December 8, 2024

Transmission

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Stakeholders Seek More Details on BPA’s ‘Evolving Grid’ Projects
Stakeholders urged the Bonneville Power Administration to provide more transparency regarding the agency’s multibillion-dollar initiative to build and upgrade transmission to address evolving challenges for the region's grid.
ERCOT
ERCOT Board of Directors Briefs: Dec. 2-3, 2024
ERCOT’s Board of Directors signed off on staff’s recommendation to move forward with executing an RMR contract for CPS Energy’s Braunig Unit 3, deferring a decision on the gas plant’s other two smaller units.
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Former FERC Commissioners Discuss Accommodations to States in Order 1920-A
Former FERC commissioners discussed Order 1920-A and its accommodations to states, which could complicate compliance processes but also lead to more support for actually expanding the grid.
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CGA Latest to Nudge MISO to Simultaneously Contemplate New Load and New Generation
Clean energy organizations are prodding MISO to contemplate prospective load and generation simultaneously, with Clean Grid Alliance asking MISO to coordinate its annual transmission studies with its interconnection queue studies.
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FERC’s Chang Emphasizes Need for Demand Flexibility to NEPOOL PC

FERC Commissioner Judy Chang emphasized the importance of demand response, long-term transmission planning and gas-electric coordination in her address to the NEPOOL Participants Committee meeting.

Bonneville Power Administration
BPA Hit FY24 Reliability Targets Despite Wildfires, Peak Load Records
BPA hit all its reliability goals in fiscal year 2024 despite massive wildfires, peak load records and public safety power shutoffs, according to agency staff.
ISO-NE
ISO-NE Stakeholders Respond to Potential Long-term Transmission RFP
Stakeholders expressed widespread support for the goals of NESCOE’s proposed procurement of transmission solutions in Maine and New Hampshire, while offering differing views on the scope and format of the solicitation.
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MISO to Skip 2024 Queue Cycle While it Automates Study Process with Tech Startup
MISO officially decided it will forgo acceptance of a 2024 queue cycle of projects while it works with Pearl Street to automate interconnection studies.
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SPP Stakeholders Endorse Need Dates for Delayed Transmission Projects
SPP stakeholders have endorsed a pair of winter-weather staging dates for transmission projects after two months of discussions and negotiations that delayed their approval by the Board of Directors.
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Power Market Costs Behind Rate Increases, PGE Says
Portland General Electric’s rate hikes largely stem from increased wholesale power market costs, the utility wrote after Sen. Ron Wyden voiced concern that Oregon customers are struggling to pay their electricity bills.

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