SPP released a comprehensive report on the week of February's severe winter storm, calling it the most operationally challenging week in its 80-year history.

PJM stakeholders affirmed OA language from the RTO’s mitigation proposal endorsed in February to avoid critical infrastructure projects.

Renewable developers said SPP's plan to resolve a four-year backlog of GI requests by 2024 sets an example for the other RTOs to follow.

FERC voted to reconsider its rules on transmission planning, cost allocation and generator interconnection, acknowledging the failures of  Order 1000.

MISO said it will probably use its existing affected system study as a model to study interconnecting DER aggregations under FERC Order 2222. 

MISO and SPP are asking for stakeholder ideas on how they can cost share joint transmission projects that allow new generator interconnections.

MISO and SPP's joint targeted interconnection queue study turned up the first transmission projects that could help generation interconnect near the seams.

Speakers on an ARPA-E Innovation Summit panel agreed that the transition to renewable energy will require an interconnected nationwide grid.

FERC stuck to its ruling approving Tri-State G&T’s transitional process for interconnection customers, overriding rehearing requests by solar developers.

Transmission will be key to unlocking benefits for consumers, FERC Chair Richard Glick said at the first session of PJM’s interconnection policy workshop.