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.

A band of Michigan utilities wants the option to decline MISO’s affected system-style studies on distributed energy resources.

Climate change is already causing billions of dollars in economic costs and infrastructure damage, including the power grid, the Senate Budget Committee heard.

MISO has shortened one of the 345-kV lines contained in its $2 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue portfolio with SPP, which will lower costs.

Two ITC staffers insist that MISO’s 2016 market efficiency project is proof that rights of first refusal laws benefit the grid and ratepayers.

Stakeholders requested MISO take a second look into its recommendation of an expedited transmission project in Michigan.

ITC Midwest can keep the capital structure it has had in place since 2007, FERC decided, blocking a complaint led by Alliant Energy.

Industrial energy users and other ratepayers are balking at FERC’s proposal to abandon Order 1000’s competition measures.

A coalition of utilities, industrial customers and consumer advocates spearheaded by Alliant Energy is contesting ITC Midwest’s capital structure.

FERC denied rehearing requests from transmission providers and others on Order 881.