On March 18, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) issued two orders with respect to the proposed Tres Amigas “Superstation” (or the Project). As proposed, the Project would consist of a three-way alternating current (AC)/direct current (DC) transmission interconnection station that would interconnect the three asynchronous transmission grids in the coterminous United States: the Eastern Interconnection, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) in Clovis, New Mexico, thus allowing significant amounts of power to be transmitted among the three interconnections for the first time. Read more…