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Regional Transmission Planning

MCLI Recommendation: “Regional planners could study how the role of coal and natural gas in the generation mix will likely change or should change in the next several decades in light of GHG reduction goals.”

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FERC Order 1000

In Order 1000, FERC imposed on all public utility electric transmission providers the need to develop regional transmission plans. Those plans must consider non-transmission options as well as transmi...
Example Public Utilities

MISO’s Long-Range Transmission Portfolio

In July 2022, the Midwest Independent System Operator’s board approved a $10.3 billion transmission plan that could support about 53 GW of wind, solar, hybrid and stand-alone battery projects found in...
Resource Public Utilities

CAISO’s Transmission Planning Analysis

CAISO, the California independent system operator, based its draft 2018-19 transmission planning analysis around Renewables Portfolio Standard compliance. In addition to the state’s 50% by 2030 policy...
Resource Executive Branch

New FERC Transmission Planning Proceeding (2021)

In July 2021, FERC launched docket RM21-17-000, a rulemaking on high-voltage transmission planning, and said it is seeking comments about how it could change or enhance existing transmission regulatio...
Example Public Utilities

MISO’s 2032 Projections

MISO, the independent system operator for the Midwest US and Manitoba, studied various energy scenarios in its 2032 projections, including an Accelerated Fleet Change scenario that presumed regional c...
Example States and State Governments

Nevada’s SB 448

In June 2021, Nevada Legislature passed SB448 to invest $100 million in transportation electrification and direct transmission providers to join a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) by 2030. On ...
Resource Executive Branch

Report, Regional Transmission Planning

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab published a 2017 survey, Regional Transmission Planning, of practices across independent system operators in response to FERC’s Order 1000. The report, among other thing...
Example Public Utilities

MISO/PJM Joint Modeling Case Study: Clean Power Analysis

MISO and PJM, two independent system operators, produced a 2017 study on compliance with the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan, which concluded, among other things, that interstate trading lower...
Resource States and State Governments

Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission

In July, 2024, ten Northeast states announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a framework to improve interregional transmission planning and development. Under the MOU, states agreed ...
Resource States and State Governments

Colorado’s SB72 (2021)

Colorado SB72 creates the Colorado Electric Transmission Authority (CETA) and also requires state utilities to join an RTO by 2030, unless the PUC finds it is not in the public interest or cannot find...