Transmission Planning
A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on April 9, 2015.
More than a decade after the MISO-PJM seam was formed, no cross-border projects have been approved and built, NIPSCO said.
Five transmission projects intended to serve New York City and respond to a potential nuclear plant closure suffered setbacks as a divided FERC rejected the developers’ cost allocation proposals and reduced their requested returns on equity.
Under questioning from MISO board members, senior RTO officials defended their support for the $200 million controversial out-of-cycle requests by Entergy.
MISO and PJM have identified what lower-voltage flowgate projects could be done quickly and cheaply on their own sides of the seam.
A divided FERC accepted the second regional compliance filing by ISO-NE to implement Order 1000, a filing that had languished for more than a year.
FERC said last week that SPP must engage in interregional coordination and cost allocation with SERTP, rejecting the RTO’s request for a limited waiver of Order 1000 requirements.
Witnesses from the Southeast generally expressed far more concern than their counterparts in the Northeast during FERC’s technical conference on the EPA Clean Power Plan.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Jim Inhofe, heard criticism and praise of the EPA's Clean Power Plan from state officials.
A round-up of news from the PJM Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee on March 12, 2015.
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