SPP’s Board of Directors approved an updated assessment of the RTO’s 2025 transmission plan that corrects two minor errors and will re-evaluate a third project recently designated as a competitive upgrade.

MISO opened another review of a second project from its first long-range transmission plan portfolio, prompted again by construction cost overruns.

The PJM Planning Committee has endorsed manual revisions to reflect how distributed energy resources would be accredited for participation in the 2028/29 Base Residual Auction.

The power industry’s own demand forecasts expect national summer peak to swell by 166 GW by 2030, Grid Strategies said in its latest load growth report.

MISO will study 6 GW of mostly natural gas-fired generation projects in the second group of entrants under its interconnection queue fast track.

The West-Wide Governance Pathways Initiative could lead the charge on developing an alternative to the Western Resource Adequacy Program that would integrate with CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market, according to co-Chair Pam Sporborg.

Many comments on the Department of Energy’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to FERC on large load interconnections warned against going too far into jurisdictional issues.

FERC approved MISO’s proposal to increase the number of generation projects it may study under its expedited interconnection queue lane from 10 to 15 per quarter.

ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a 1,109-mile, single-circuit 765-kV backbone project that is projected to cost nearly $9.4 billion in capital costs, making it the largest initiative in decades.

Energy affordability and regional collaboration dominated talks at the New England-Canada Business Council's annual Executive Energy Conference.