In the wake of the New York Public Service Commission’s decision to cease planning its offshore wind underwater transmission network, NYISO has followed suit, tossing two years of planning studies.

SPP's Strategic Planning Committee has unanimously endorsed staff’s comprehensive approach to accelerate transmission capability, directing them and the RTO's working groups to prioritize the development of policies for all short-, mid- and long-term initiatives.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the growing demand for power and how to address it.

Increased demand flexibility could significantly reduce production costs, capital costs, and transmission costs in New England by better-aligning load with generation and reducing peak loads, ISO-NE said.

DOE has terminated its $4.9 billion conditional loan commitment for the long-delayed Grain Belt Express project, saying it is “not critical” for the federal government to support the project.

NextEra Energy Transmission completed the second of its three competitive projects in SPP’s footprint, the 92-mile, 345-kV Wolf Creek-Blackberry project in Kansas and Missouri.

A CATF report argues that planners need to use demand-side resources, grid-enhancing technologies and other quick-to-deploy resources as part of a "least-regrets" effort to meet growing demand.

SPP stakeholders resoundingly rejected a proposed tariff change to integrate large loads, pushing back against what some say is a rushed process outside of the normal stakeholder structure.

FERC sided with MISO IMM David Patton, denying a petition from MISO that would have prevented the RTO from reimbursing the Monitor for reviewing the market impact of transmission planning.