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FERC rejected the formula rates and hypothetical cost structure proposed for the Valley Link portfolio of transmission projects but granted it incentives.
PJM presented additional details about the projects selected for expedited interconnection studies through the Reliability Resource Initiative to the Planning Committee.
SPP approved its sixth competitive project under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV transmission line in Oklahoma, with two more upgrades in the pipeline.
AEP tells financial analysts that load growth, driven by commercial customers in its service territory, presents opportunities to invest in “critically needed” infrastructure.
FERC Chair Mark Christie criticized PJM for continuing to consider proceeding with Transource Energy’s Independence Energy Connection transmission project years after Pennsylvania regulators denied it a certificate of public convenience and need.
The PJM Planning Committee endorsed revisions to Manual 14H to clarify the changes developers can make to the site control requirements for their projects at different phases of the interconnection process.
A federal court overturned Pennsylvania regulators’ rejection of the Independence Energy Connection, but the project’s fate depends on a PJM benefit-cost analysis.
Stakeholders told the New York PSC that utilities’ proposed transmission planning framework could favor local upgrades over more efficient regional projects.
NYISO stakeholders urged "public policy" transmission upgrades upstate, downstate and along the Pennsylvania border during the ISO’s 60-day comment period.
PJM stakeholders received an update on the suspended Transource IEC transmission project at the Transmission Expansion Advisory Committee meeting.
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