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February 15, 2026

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BPA’s Tx Planning Pause Prompts Talk of New RTO, Stricter TSR Requirements
Following BPA’s pause on certain transmission planning processes, the agency’s customers say it might be time to consider creating a regional transmission organization or imposing stricter requirements to tackle the “exponential growth” of transmission service requests.
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Duke Earnings Report Highlights Huge Investments to Meet Load Growth
Duke Energy described plans to invest up to $200 billion in the next decade to meet demand growth across its multiple utilities during an earnings call for the first quarter of 2025.
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NYISO Monitor Analyzing Alternative Capacity Market Designs
The NYISO Market Monitoring Unit told stakeholders it is independently analyzing the capacity market in parallel with the ISO’s ongoing Capacity Market Structure Review project.
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PJM Selects 51 Projects for Expedited Interconnection Studies
PJM selected 51 projects to receive expedited interconnection studies through its Reliability Resource Initiative, adding 11,793 MW of nameplate capacity to the next study cycle.
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State Officials in the Northeast Discuss Interregional Transmission Plan
Officials from members of the Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission expounded the group’s strategic action plan.
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SPP Addresses 3rd Load Shed Since March 31
SPP told its state regulators and board members that it will do better after three local load sheds since March 31, affecting a combined 54,000 customers.
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MISO Petitions 8th Circuit in Dispute with SPP over Data Center-strained Flowgate

MISO is seeking judicial review of two FERC decisions preventing the RTO from recouping costs or revising a joint procedure with SPP over a shared North Dakota transmission line that has become congested by a new cryptocurrency mining facility.

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FERC Accepts ISO-NE Compliance Filing on Interconnection O&M Costs
FERC has accepted a compliance filing by ISO-NE and the New England transmission owners eliminating interconnection customers’ responsibility to pay for operations and maintenance costs on interconnection network upgrades.
IESO
IESO Tweaks Modeling for Outage Management

IESO is changing how it projects renewable generation output and its accounting for imports and planned loads in the forecasts it uses to manage generator and transmission outages.

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State Regulators Weigh Drafting Alternative to MISO Tx Cost Allocation
Regulators of MISO states are mulling whether they should work together to offer up an entirely new cost allocation for the RTO’s long-range transmission projects.

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