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March 30, 2026

Transmission Planning

CAISO Seeks to Drop Outdated Planning Role
CAISO last week proposed to eliminate from its Tariff an annual state transmission concept plan that it says is obsolete due to FERC Order 1000.
ISO-NE PAC Briefs: June 21, 2017
At last week's ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee meeting, Eversource presented evidence of woodpecker damage and decaying support structures.
DOE Approves Emergency Dispatch of Yorktown Units
PJM secured U.S. Department of Energy approval to dispatch Dominion's shuttered Yorktown units to address reliability issues in Virginia.
Experts Provide Tips on Pipeline, Tx Permitting in New England
Experts at crawling through the maze of regulations for building pipeline or electric transmission projects talked about their experiences at NECA.
SPP
SPP SSC Briefs: June 14, 2017
Having agreed on a first potential interregional transmission project with MISO, SPP is moving the 115-kV line in South Dakota through regional review.
Offshore Wind Developers Ponder Tx Options
Transmission will be Massachusetts' biggest challenge in its goal to add 1,600 MW of offshore wind, a panel said at the Restructuring Roundtable.
WECC Generation, Transmission Loss Events Spike
Electric system disturbances from the loss of generation or transmission in the Western Interconnection increased by 50% between 2015 and 2016.
MISO PAC Briefs: June 14, 2017
MISO plans by the end of the year to introduce Tariff changes eliminating resource suspensions in favor of a single retirement process.
MISO Rethinks Weighting of MTEP 18 Futures
Market developments are compelling MISO to reconsider how it weighs the 15-year future scenarios designed to inform its 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan.
Questions to FERC Nominees Reflect Democrats’ Wish List
President Trump’s nominees to FERC gave boilerplate answers to senators’ questions on hydroelectric project licensing following their confirmation hearing.

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