Utilities at a customer-led workshop voiced support for Bonneville Power Administration’s shift toward proactive transmission planning, though some expressed reservations about the agency’s proposed commercial readiness criteria.

A House Natural Resources Committee hearing on permitting legislation highlighted how split the parties are, even on an issue where key parts of both their coalitions support action.

MISO and several stakeholders came to the defense of the RTO’s $21.8 billion, 24-project long-range transmission plan portfolio for the Midwest as five Republican states seek to repeal the projects’ approval.

More and more, energy policy analysis seems to be based on finding a preferred answer rather than a realistic answer, says America's Power CEO Michelle Bloodworth.

The Northwest Power and Conservation Council provided additional details on how its ninth power plan will consider new federal policies that could impact the buildout of new resources and transmission.

Permitting reform legislation is starting to move through Congress, with a key House committee holding a hearing and supporters lobbying legislators, though actually passing a bill is tough in any political climate.

An apparently routine rate incentive request from a MISO transmission developer who has yet to be assigned a project turned into a debate between FERC commissioners over capital structures in ratemaking.

The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission violated the Constitution in denying Transource Energy permits necessary to construct the Independence Energy Connection transmission project.

Six Western U.S. senators came out in support of the California legislation needed to transform CAISO’s market into an independent regional energy market, saying in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom the bill promises "improved grid reliability and significant energy cost savings.”

SPP’s Board of Directors has approved a pair of contentious measures that were put aside during its August quarterly meeting, a tariff change to integrate and operate high-impact large loads and a revised cost estimate for a 765-kV transmission project.