FERC rejected a proposed MISO maintenance fee, but it approved a new process for interconnecting external merchant HVDC transmission.

The Planning Committee endorsed PJM’s annual reserve requirement study and recommendations for a 15.7% IRM for next year’s Base Residual Auction.

MISO proposed bringing the three major players in its load forecasting together to coordinate on predictions for long-term transmission planning.

NYISO locational-based marginal prices averaged $38.70/MWh in September, down from $42.56/MWh in August but up 31% from the same month a year ago.

FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

The current ERCOT market design “will support more than sufficient reserve margins,” according to a draft report the grid operator filed with the Texas PUC.

ERCOT’s Board of Directors unanimously approved the grid operator’s first economic project in three years, a $53.3 million transmission upgrade.

ERCOT’s Board unanimously approved staff’s determination that no market changes are needed to address price formation issues as a result of DC tie flows.

Regulators in New Mexico have approved Pattern’s Corona Wind Farm Project but not the SunZia transmission project that would send Corona's output to CAISO.

MISO and PJM have whittled 20 prospective targeted market efficiency projects (TMEPs) down to two.