State utility regulators are urging the PJM Interconnection and the Midcontinent Independent System Operator to bolster joint long-term interregional transmission planning between their footprints.
“The transition from dispatchable thermal generators to intermittent, clean energy resources, and a surge in electric demand raise challenges to PJM, MISO, and their interconnected neighbors’ ability to reliably and cost-effectively support one another when called upon,” the Organization of MISO States, or OMS, and the Organization of PJM States Inc., called OPSI, said in a joint Jan. 26 letter.
