CAISO’s draft 2025/26 transmission plan proposes more than $1 billion for an infrastructure project that would power new data centers and other large loads in Silicon Valley.

PJM estimates it may need to rebill over $1 billion in transmission charges under a FERC order requiring the RTO to eliminate the de minimis exception from the process it uses to determine transmission rates.

Transmission owners have asked FERC to suspend competitive bidding on projects in MISO and SPP so the grid can be built out faster to accommodate the AI data center explosion.

Portland General Electric has asked the Oregon Public Utility Commission to approve its proposed $1.9 billion purchase of PacifiCorp’s Washington assets, saying the deal paves the way for continued investments in the Pacific Northwest.

Eversource Energy and Avangrid asked FERC to pause refund obligations stemming from the commission’s recent order cutting the return on equity for New England transmission owners and requiring the companies to issue extensive refunds.

The results of NYISO’s 2024 transitional cluster deliverability study show that more than $1.1 billion of high-voltage transmission upgrades would be required to accommodate 48 projects in the batch of generation projects.

Utilities and lawmakers in the Northwest agree the Bonneville Power Administration’s next administrator must focus on building transmission and take risks to make that happen.

LBNL released an update to its retail price study, which showed power prices rose for most states between 2024 and 2025, after a half decade of mostly declining prices.

A sitting state commissioner and two former regulators have asked MISO to publicly share any information it might gather on its Independent Market Monitor’s possible involvement in a five-state complaint against the RTO’s long-range transmission planning.

SEPA released an update to a database it created to track large load tariffs, which are spreading faster as large load customers proliferate.