SPP’s Board of Directors approved a more than 8% reduction in the RTO’s administrative fee for 2019, although the fee is projected to rise again in 2020.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed a staff suggestion to increase by 50% the boundary thresholds used to project future loads in Far West Texas.

MISO had its revised cost allocation proposal for the RTO’s targeted market efficiency projects with PJM approved by FERC.

Energy Storage is glaringly absent from MISO’s potential plans to manage a possible 40% renewable penetration on the grid, stakeholders told the RTO.

FERC ok'd cost allocations for 60 transmission projects added to PJM’s RTEP, including high-voltage projects allocated entirely to a Dominion Energy zone.

FERC granted FirstEnergy Services’ request to recover “prudently incurred abandonment costs” from Transource Energy’s Independence Energy Connection.

MISO said it has selected NextEra Energy Transmission Midwest to construct the Hartburg-Sabine junction project, wrapping up months of evaluation.

MISO will need to take significant steps to reinforce its grid to handle 40% renewable penetration.

The Department of Energy convened to gather information for the department’s 2019 electric transmission congestion study.

MISO will file a proposal to revise its interconnection queue process by implementing stringent site control requirements and increasing milestone payments.