MISO and PJM have identified what lower-voltage flowgate projects could be done quickly and cheaply on their own sides of the seam.

IPPNY failed to persuade FERC that out-of-market payments that keep financially strapped generation operating to maintain system reliability suppress capacity prices.

This week's state briefs cover Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio.

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 last week accepted revised transmission formula rate protocols by four SPP and MISO utilities that had deficient protocols.

FERC rejected Dominion Virginia Power’s request to push back the effective date for a rate revision by more than year, a change that would have cost transmission customers $11.1 million.

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.

About 10 protesters were led or carried out of the FERC open meeting today after defying the commission’s “no interruptions” rule with chants of “Stop construction at Cove Point!”

Two key Maryland counties have agreed to support the controversial takeover of Pepco by Exelon in return for promises of bill credits, reliability improvements and other concessions.

A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on March 12, 2015.