Transmission owners prevail shedding doubt on FERC’s refusal to authorize rate of return for major generator interconnection upgrade projects. On January 26, 2018, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded five FERC orders that rejected Transmission Owners’ request to self-fund indirect interconnection upgrades of 345 kilovolts (kV) or greater (Network Upgrades), required to […]
MISO Order No. 1000 Project Authorized Transmission Rate Incentives
MISO Order No. 1000 Project authorized transmission rate incentives. On October 6, 2017, FERC granted Republic Transmission, LLC’s (a wholly owned subsidiary of LSP Transmission Holdings) (“Republic”) Petition for Declaratory Order seeking transmission rate incentives pursuant to Section 219 of the Federal Power Act (“FPA”) and Order No. 679. In MISO’s first competitive transmission solicitation […]