The Texas Public Utility Commission approved modifications to proposed transmission lines necessary to integrate Lubbock Power & Light load into ERCOT.

MISO is assessing the impact of FERC’s recent order reinstating transmission owners’ rights to self-fund network upgrades as renewable proponents worry.

SPP staff are expected to return to the MOPC with a proposal for a “strategic survey” following numerous occurrences of conservative operations last summer.

SPP stakeholders delayed a decision over the weighting of futures and the use of economic must-run modeling in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.

A team convened to examine the cause of a MISO transmission capacity shortfall is seeking input on what measures the RTO could take to support renewables.

MISO’s analysis into the Minnesota-Wisconsin export interface constraint could inspire similar studies to solve non-thermal operating limits.

Regulators in MISO and SPP states are looking into the RTOs’ inability to develop interregional projects intended to relieve congestion across seams.

PJM’s Planning Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 14F to remove the competitive exemption for Form 715 local planning criteria transmission projects.

State regulators from SPP and MISO continue to discuss opportunities to contribute to the RTOs’ transmission planning analysis.

ISO-NE kicks off 2020 with a key deadline looming to file its Energy Security Improvements program to address winter fuel security concerns.