The California PUC, Energy Commission and CAISO signed an agreement that will help make CAISO's transmission planning more proactive, CEO Elliot Mainzer said.

FERC settled a dispute between NextEra Energy and Avangrid over whether the former should be responsible for upgrading a circuit breaker at Seabrook.

ALLETE and Grid United are teaming up to build a first-of-its-kind line that would span across interconnections and through three electric regions.

MISO planners emphasized that its hypothetical map of projects is not what a final second portfolio could look like under its long-range transmission planning.

SPP’s MOPC approved two revision requests related to resource adequacy requirements that members had set aside during its meeting earlier this month.

SREA said Duke Carolinas' and TVA's holiday blackouts were likely avoidable had they built robust transmission links and had better access to organized markets.

MISO and SPP said they plan to treat Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue projects as large generator interconnection projects when allocating costs.

State regulators face a big challenge in ensuring grid modernization investments are in the public interest and cost-beneficial, says economist Ken Costello.

NYISO rebuked NextEra Energy for attempting to lobby the grid operator to award it transmission projects to connect offshore wind projects to Long Island.

Researchers at Berkeley Lab say growing renewable generation mean it’s likely time to retool the design of financial transmission rights in wholesale markets.