MISO has assembled the 10 generation finalists to enter its first interconnection queue fast track. The list includes five natural gas proposals, three solar farms, one wind farm and a battery storage facility.

Two new data sets show the industry has started to cut back on record high interconnection queue levels from last year as reforms have started to take hold.

MISO announced that its first interconnection queue express lane application window turned up 47 projects at a little more than 26.5 GW of proposed new capacity, with natural gas generation accounting for about 20 GW.

Mark Christie announced he was stepping down as chair of FERC effective at close of business Aug. 8, and filed one last dissent the previous day.

BPA’s proposed changes to its grid access process have prompted questions about how new readiness criteria will affect established industry practices and financing of new projects.

MISO expects to exceed its quarterly project maximum when it begins accepting the first generation project proposals under its interconnection queue express lane.

FERC approved a controversial MISO proposal to create a fast lane for certain reliability-related projects in the RTO’s interconnection queue — just two months after rebuffing an earlier version of the plan.

Clean Grid Alliance claims new information MISO has released on its interconnection queue fast lane definitively shows the plan would be detrimental to independent power producers and should be rejected by FERC.

The Bonneville Power Administration unveiled its proposals for overhauling its transmission planning, with help from the industry.

FERC Commissioner Judy Chang, in a speech at WIRES' summer meeting, laid out how the major issues facing the power industry are related and how important it is to the future of competition that they are addressed correctly in the long term.