Former Wisconsin Commissioner Mike Huebsch has tainted the permitting process of the Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line by contacting ATC and ITC employees through an encrypted messaging app during the permitting process.

FERC approved CAISO's controversial rule changes on wheel-throughs, intended to ensure the ISO has adequate capacity this summer.

Relationships between state and federal entities on large-scale infrastructure projects featured prominently at the second day of MACRUC.

Thousands of customers of Avista Utilities lost power during a record-smashing heat wave when the utility ordered rolling blackouts in Spokane, Wash.

A House panel heard testimony on Democratic proposals to address cost allocation problems and increase federal authority over siting of transmission lines.

Clean energy advocates mounted new attacks on the Southeast Energy Exchange Market, saying it would offer a fraction of the benefits of an organized market.

MISO and SPP's joint targeted interconnection queue study turned up the first transmission projects that could help generation interconnect near the seams.

FERC will reconsider whether the 1% de minimis threshold and netting provisions of PJM's DFAX method result in fair transmission cost allocations.

The future of the Independence Energy Connection transmission project is still undecided as Transource Energy appealed the Pennsylvania PUC's decision.

Transmission owners told FERC that limiting the RTO participation adder would reduce grid investments while ratepayers called the proposal long overdue.