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February 17, 2026

Transmission Planning

Study Findings Clash on Value of Competitive Tx
A pair of studies have drawn divergent conclusions about the merits of competitive transmission solicitations. The differences may have to do with sponsors.
Wyoming Wind Power Revs up, but is it too much?
Multiple developers are building or seeking to build massive wind projects in Wyoming, but they lack interstate transmission options to export it.
FERC Delays Mich. Tx Decision for State Input
FERC suspended a ruling on Consumers Energy’s complaint over a pending transmission project in Michigan until the PSC weighs in.
Complaint Seeks Bigger Role for Smaller MISO Projects
LS Power asked FERC to compel MISO to lower the threshold for competitively bid market efficiency projects from 345 kV to 100 kV.
Texas ROFR Law Clouds Hartburg-Sabine Future
The future of MISO’s second competitively bid transmission project could be in jeopardy after passage of a Texas law that grants incumbent utilities a ROFR.
Legal Scuffle Threatens Virginia Tx Line
The D.C. Circuit left it up to a lower court to decide whether Dominion should be forced to tear down a transmission line it built crossing the James River.
UPDATED: RSC, OMS Approve Monitors’ Seams Study
The SPP Regional State Committee approved a recommendation to engage the RTO’s MMU and the MISO Monitor to conduct a joint analysis on seams issues.
MTEP 19 Could Yield First MISO SATA Project
An ATC effort to improve reliability in Wisconsin could within two years provide MISO with its first-ever storage-as-transmission asset project.
SPP Tx Planners at Forefront of New Challenges
Attendees of SPP's Engineering Planning Summit discussed how to plan transmission to account for the RTO's overabundance of renewable resources.
MTEP 19 Revealing High Price Tag
MISO is polishing a draft 2019 Transmission Expansion Plan (MTEP) that could end up being one of the RTO’s most expensive buildout packages.

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