Delmarva officials are lobbying the PJM board to reject planners’ recommended reliability fix for Artificial Island.

The price tag on the proposed Northern Pass transmission line in New Hampshire appears likely to rise after a draft environmental impact statement released last week showed the cheapest route would also have the greatest environmental impact.

A summary of topics discussed by SPP working groups last week.

A summary of measures approved by the PJM Markets and Reliability Committee on July 23, 2015.

Our summary of the issues scheduled for votes at the PJM MRC on 07/23/15. Each item is listed by agenda number, description and projected time of discussion, followed by a summary of the issue and links to prior coverage.

A round-up of news from the SPP Strategic Planning Committee on July 16, 2015.

FERC declined to rehear DTE Electric’s contention that MISO rules put generation developers at a disadvantage in the competition for reliability projects.

A round-up of news from the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on July 14 and 15.

SPP members approved four over-budget transmission projects and sent three others back to the drawing board amid widespread criticism of the process used to estimate project costs.

A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on July 9, 2015.