Tuesday, 30 June 2026

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission accepted PJM's proposed Expedited Interconnection Track, a temporary standalone process designed to fast-track large capacity projects, according to PJM's Inside Lines.

The order takes effect July 31, and the Expedited Interconnection Track will sunset at the end of 2027, per the same source.

Under the rules accepted by FERC, proposals must offer a minimum of 250 MW of unforced capacity, and applications will be received on a rolling basis until the annual limit is reached. PJM expects projects entering the track to execute a Generation Interconnection Agreement within 10 months of submission and reach operation within three years.

PJM President and CEO David Mills said the FERC approval creates a pathway for shovel-ready generation projects of any kind to connect to the grid within the next three years, according to Inside Lines.

The new track follows other recent PJM efforts to add capacity. According to Inside Lines, PJM's one-time Reliability Resource Initiative attracted approximately 8,000 MW of generation across 41 projects, which are scheduled for final agreement at the beginning of 2027. PJM also completed the first transition cycle under its reformed interconnection process on its Tariff-based schedule, resulting in 14.1 GW of energy under signed agreements.

Red Eléctrica has completed the repowering of the 220 kV transmission line connecting the Mesón do Vento and Santiago de Compostela substations, a project the Redeia subsidiary says reinforces electricity supply and the integration of renewables.

According to Red Eléctrica, transmission capacity on the line rises to 447 MVA from the previous 342 MVA. The transmission system operator handles system operation and electricity transmission in Spain.

The upgrade involved replacing the conductor cable along a 48-kilometre route through the municipalities of Órdenes, Trazo, Santiago de Compostela and Ames, and heightening 13 of the existing towers, Red Eléctrica said.

The operator put the investment at more than EUR 800,000. The project sits within the current Electricity Transmission Grid Plan approved by the Council of Ministers.

Red Eléctrica has started publishing installed capacity data for hybrid generation facilities on its public information platforms, the Spanish transmission system operator said. The TSO plans to add data on electricity generated by these facilities in the coming months.

Installed hybrid capacity in Spain exceeds 1.6 GW, with nearly 86% coming from hybridisation of multiple renewable technologies, according to Red Eléctrica.

The operator has updated Operating Procedure 3.1 with a classification of five possible types of hybrid installation combinations. The new data series begin in June 2024.

The release of hybrid indicators follows the inclusion of data on storage and self-consumption on Red Eléctrica's platforms in 2025.

The active demand response service known as SRAD will be allocated 1,775 MW for the second half of 2026, slightly above the 1,725 MW allocated for the first six months of the year.

The allocated volume covers 76% of the 2,339 MW required in the auction specifications for this call. Successful bidders will be remunerated at a marginal price of EUR 42.62 per allocated MW per hour for their availability to reduce consumption capacity during the assigned hours.

2026 is the first year the SRAD features two provision periods: one running January to June, for which the allocation auction was held in November 2025, and a second covering July to December.

So far in 2026, the SRAD has been deployed once, on 28 January, a day when all service providers participated in two consecutive, staggered activations.

Following a proposal by the CNMC, a modification to Operating Procedure 7.5 was published in the Official State Gazette on 15 May to optimise the allocated capacity volume and the marginal price.