FERC’s transmission planning NOPR has won wide praise, but the consensus proposal also represented a retreat on efforts to open development to competition.

Legislators sent a bill to Gov. Janet Mills that would allow for up to a $1 million fine per year for utilities that fail to meet new service standards.

Amid two interregional study efforts and a pledge for better seams coordination, MISO and SPP are launching a new biannual stakeholder meeting.

FERC proposed changing transmission planning and cost allocation processes to help build out the grid in response to electrification and renewables.

New York TOs again rejected challenges to their new public policy category of local transmission development for purposes of cost sharing and recovery.

MISO and SPP planners discussed the prospects of Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue projects at the Missouri Energy Initiative Midwest Energy Policy Series.

PJM proposes a new subcommittee to continue discussions of interconnection process changes after the Interconnection Process Reform Task Force wraps up.

PJM's Operating Committee approved a recommendation to evaluate the need to procure additional reliability-based generation as intermittent resources are added.

SPP stakeholders have rejected a recommendation to stick with the status quo when it comes to adding counterflow optimization to the congestion-hedging process.

FERC approved the SAA sought by the New Jersey BPU and PJM that gives them greenlight to build transmission to deliver 7.5 GW of planned offshore wind.