The cost estimate for MISO’s 2025 Transmission Expansion Plan has fallen slightly from previous estimates to $12.36 billion.

The New England wholesale electricity markets performed competitively in 2024, while decreased imports and higher emissions compliance rates increased overall market costs, the ISO-NE Internal Market Monitor told the NEPOOL Participants Committee.

SPP and its members are working together on a draft 765-kV transmission overlay as part of its 2025 Integrated Transmission Planning assessment that will dwarf 2024's record study.

Parties filed their first briefs in the appeal of FERC Order 1920, which mandated changes to regional transmission planning and cost-allocation rules.

Though progress on legislative action has stalled, permitting reform remains a vital step forward — one where policymakers can make a meaningful difference. As Congress reconvenes, this critical issue is back on the table, says Todd Snitchler.

MISO said its set of 20-year transmission planning futures must be further fine-tuned after the Trump administration’s repeal of tax credits for renewable generation.

ERCOT stakeholders, while raising concerns over the grid operator’s use of conservative operations, have endorsed staff’s recommendations for computing minimum ancillary service quantities for 2026.

Two new data sets show the industry has started to cut back on record high interconnection queue levels from last year as reforms have started to take hold.