The 2016 MISO Transmission Expansion Plan, with 383 projects totaling $2.7 billion, unanimously passed the Board of Directors’ review Dec. 7.

MISO Independent Market Monitor (IMM) David Patton presented a draft of his quarterly report; expressing concerns over high outage rates in MISO South.

Increased transfer capacity is keeping a lid on congestion in the EIM and limiting participants’ ability to wield market power, according to CAISO’s IMM.

Entergy and Consumers Energy have decided to terminate a power purchase agreement for the Palisades nuclear plant early.

FERC approved the Exelon acquisition of the troubled FitzPatrick nuclear plant, rejecting a protest that its review should have included the impact of ZECs.

FERC approved a rate settlement on a West Virginia transmission project over the objections of both FERC staff and Commissioner Colette Honorable.

FERC dismissed a complaint seeking to overturn the results of MISO’s 2016/17 Planning Resource Auction but ordered the RTO to answer questions.

CAISO has narrowed the scope of a generator interconnection plan that seeks to protect smaller transmission owners from disproportionately high costs.

ERCOT stakeholders approved new criteria for determining the need for new projects to address existing transmission planning challenges.

Millennium Pipeline has taken New York to federal court to force action on a gas line needed for CPV's under-construction power plant.