Transmission Planning
PJM’s most recent competitive window for transmission projects attracted 63 proposals from 12 entities, the majority of them transmission owner upgrades.
PJM is reducing its load forecast for 2018 by 2.6%, due in part to a temporary change in modeling that aims to address over-forecasting in recent years.
Transmission upgrades of $20 million or more and all “greenfield” proposals will be charged a $30,000 fee under an OA revision approved by the PJM MC.
Con Ed of New York filed a complaint with FERC stating its opposition to a cost allocation formula that PJM has devised for two transmission upgrades.
The PJM TEAC has identified 20 candidates for “market efficiency” projects in the competitive window that opened Oct. 30.
Transmission developers will have to include a $30,000 check with future “greenfield” proposals under a new rule approved by the PJM MRC last week.
State officials and generation owners promised last week to challenge the assumptions the EPA used in its proposed carbon rule.
DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz traveled to New York to get Wall Street’s perspective on challenges to financing electric transmission and energy infrastructure.
Duke Energy is joining a novel $8 billion project using wind and salt mines to provide power, the first time underground compressed-air storage would be used on such a scale in the U.S.
Two of the finalists for the Artificial Island transmission fix have offered to cap their costs while a third has teamed up with Pepco.
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