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December 5, 2025

Transmission

PSCo
Xcel Battles Colo. Counties over Transmission Project
Xcel Energy is fighting two counties that are blocking a segment of the company’s Colorado’s Power Pathway transmission project. 
CPUC
Solar Dominates CPUC Tx Plan Recommendations Despite Cost Increases
The California PUC is recommending the state build an additional 68.5 GW of new solar generation resources by 2045, despite new tariffs on imports and the planned elimination of federal tax credits.
Savannah River Site
DOE Seeking Proposals for Power Generation, AI Data Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy is looking for developers that want to build artificial intelligence data centers — and the power generation to run them — on two nuclear sites.
Mid-America Carpenters Regional Council
D.C. Circuit Vacates FERC Cancellation of Reactive Power Compensation in MISO
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a FERC order allowing MISO to end reactive power compensation, though the decision has no bearing on the nationwide discontinuation of payments for reactive power in Order 904.
 DOE
BPA Provides More Details on 2028 Residential Exchange Program
The Bonneville Power Administration is developing the next phase of its Residential Exchange Program, which helps residential and farm customers of higher-cost Northwest utilities access lower-cost federal power reserved for public power customers..
NYISO
NYISO Dogged by Uncertainty in Comprehensive Reliability Plan
NYISO’s draft 2025-2034 Comprehensive Reliability Plan shows a wide range of possible scenarios for resource adequacy in New York, with the most negative outlook showing a deficit of up to 10 GW by 2034.
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Data Centers ‘Exacerbating’ Tx Line Overload Forecasts in Bay Area
The construction of new data centers could lead to transmission line overloads in the Bay Area, CAISO forecasts show.
ERCOT
ERCOT Board Approves AS Procurement for 2026
ERCOT’s Board of Directors approved staff’s recommended methodologies for acquiring minimum ancillary service requirements in 2026, despite concerns over conservative operations and target procurement levels.
ATC and ITC Midwest
Bipartisan Transmission Permitting Reform Bill Introduced in House
U.S. Reps. Scott Peters (D) and Andy Barr (R) introduced the SPEED and Reliability Act, which is meant to speed up the siting and permitting of transmission lines.
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MISO: More Time Needed to Perform 8-year Resettlement of TOs’ ROE
MISO says it needs more time to finish meting out refunds, nearly a dozen years after a complaint was first raised to lower its transmission owners’ base return on equity.

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