PJM CEO Andy attended his last Markets and Reliability and Members committee meetings, capping more than two decades with the organization.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved a proposal by ITC Midwest and Xcel Energy to build the Huntley-Wilmarth transmission project.

The Organization of MISO States issued a set of principles intended to guide the RTO’s approach to long-term transmission planning.

Several projects in Maine have withdrawn from the interconnection queue since the second Maine Resource Integration Study began, the ISO-NE PAC learned.

FERC rejected a set of rehearing requests contesting the cost allocations for several cross-seams projects between PJM and MISO.

MISO acknowledged the future of a NextEra transmission project is uncertain after the passage of a Texas law giving incumbent utilities a ROFR in the state.

NextEra Energy filed a federal lawsuit challenging a recent Texas law giving incumbent utilities a ROFR to build transmission projects in the state.

PJM Planning Committee Chairman Ken Seiler said the new executive director of systems operations, Dave Souder, will replace him as committee chair in July.

MISO is toying with the idea of foreshortening its MTEP 20 process in order to maximize time spent on the 2021 cycle of transmission projects.

The Texas PUC approved a 345-kV transmission project that cuts through an active petroleum field in West Texas’ Permian Basin.