Transmission Rates
California Conservation Corps
FERC granted and denied in part challenges to Pacific Gas and Electric’s 2022 transmission rates, finding that PG&E must remove certain costs from its rate base while also denying a request to pause the utility’s ability to recover costs stemming from two fires.
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The dispute between Exelon and Constellation Energy continued to play out in FERC, as the latter and others protested a series of filings from the former’s utilities seeking to implement new rules for co-locating data centers at power plants in their territories
ATC and ITC Midwest
Transmission policy has made some progress lately, but ITC President Krista Tanner came to Capitol Hill to get one more item over the finish line — the permitting bill.
Xcel Energy
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied review petitions by several SPP members over FERC's rejection of generators’ rehearing requests seeking compensation under tariff Attachment Z2.
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Advanced transmission technologies can help utilities meet the rising levels of demand that are stressing the grid, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
Otter Tail Power Co.
MISO and its transmission owners defended their practice of allowing TOs to self-fund network upgrades necessary to bring generation online before developers get the chance to finance them.
KFYR TV
FERC dismissed separate complaints from MISO and Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. over a MISO-SPP flowgate chronically stressed by a North Dakota cryptocurrency mining operation.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
FERC rejected without prejudice Basin Electric’s proposed cryptocurrency and large load rate schedules, saying it had not demonstrated that such loads pose a greater stranded asset risk.
ISO-NE
New England transmission owners have presented a $185 per kW-year regional network service rate for 2025, an increase over the $154 per kW-year rate in 2024.
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SPP directors and regulators have approved the grid operator’s first winter planning reserve margin, endorsing a base PRM that is 3 percentage points higher than many of its utilities wanted.
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