IESO will open some transmission projects to competition, although most will continue being awarded to incumbents.

The Oregon Public Utility Commission approved wildfire mitigation plans proposed by the state’s three investor-owned utilities and supported staff recommendations the commission said the utilities should implement.

The current state of transmission policy was examined at an Infocast conference that went into the possibility for a permitting bill and looked at the implementation of recent FERC orders.

FERC told MISO it needs a few more edits to its queue rules to be compliant with the commission’s wide-ranging order to streamline generator interconnection.

CAISO is soliciting bids for two transmission projects in the San Francisco Bay Area to prepare the state for more projected data center load in the coming decade.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee and Operating Committee approved a governing document revisions that would implement transmission owners’ right of first refusal in the ISO’s planning processes at their meetings.

Committee business included a quick-fix package to expand the definition of dual-fuel generation in the Reliability Assurance Agreement to include generation capable of running on a backup fuel type with off-site storage and dedicated delivery.