FERC Commissioner Judy Chang, in a speech at WIRES' summer meeting, laid out how the major issues facing the power industry are related and how important it is to the future of competition that they are addressed correctly in the long term.

The NYISO Management Committee passed two motions at its June 30 meeting, unanimously recommending that the Board of Directors approve them.

NYISO is proposing changes to certain capacity market parameters to accommodate the Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission project, as well as facilitate the new entry of resources.

FERC denied a waiver request by MISO and SPP to modify the Coordinated System Plan under their joint operating agreement, saying it is not the “appropriate vehicle” to improve the process.

Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.

A yearslong dispute over who gets to own a 345-kV network upgrade in Michigan had the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals meditating on the definitions of “system” versus “facility.”

IESO will open some transmission projects to competition, although most will continue being awarded to incumbents.

The current state of transmission policy was examined at an Infocast conference that went into the possibility for a permitting bill and looked at the implementation of recent FERC orders.