MISO proposed the adoption of three new future scenarios intended to inform the development of MTEP 17.

Risk-averse engineers and outdated utility ratemaking structures are preventing quicker deployment of innovative technologies.

More than 100 transmission developers, consultants, RTO officials and utility executives attended Infocast’s 19th Annual Transmission Summit.

FERC granted Missouri River Energy Services an extension to comment on a series of “zonal agreements” submitted by ALLETE and Great River Energy.

The U.S. Department of Energy said it would participate in the development of Clean Line Energy Partners Plains & Eastern transmission project.

Interstate Power joined MidAmerican Energy in protesting the GIA that MISO filed for the Marshalltown Generating Station in Iowa.

MISO stakeholders say they do not expect perfect procedures at the seams with neighboring balancing areas, but they do want the RTO to implement reforms.

Transmission projects expected to be in service by 2020 are adequate to leave the boundaries of the four zones intact, ISO-NE said.

According to FERC's first transmission metrics report, all of the organized markets under FERC jurisdiction have regions showing signs of transmission underinvestment.

FERC approved a settlement for three transmission projects intended as contingencies for the potential closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant.