MISO and SPP said they will likely establish a smaller interregional project type, which could produce the two's first cross-border transmission project.

 Louisiana regulators say they'll consider a split with MISO if ratepayers are forced to fund major transmission built in northern parts of the footprint.

FERC has authorized a MISO settlement that will replace a rate schedule for use of transmission between its Midwest and South regions.

Panelists at a FERC technical conference on energy and ancillary services markets agreed that rules should be changed to incent new resource types.

MISO said its proposal to conduct transmission cost allocation separately for the South and Midwest regions is likely to be in place for up to four years.

MISO's 339-project, $3.04 billion MTEP 21 is headed for approvals from the MISO Board of Directors. 

The Texas PUC discussed the lack of competition in Entergy Texas’ footprint, questioning whether previous cost recoveries have benefited ratepayers.

MISO's Oct. 7 Market Subcommittee covered FTR market concerns and a customer ask for better load forecasting data.

MISO will use its electric storage resource participation model as the basis for DER aggregation participation, scrapping an earlier plan.

MISO and SPP said a weak economic showing isn’t a dealbreaker to build transmission projects accommodating generation in their jammed interconnection queues.