The SPP Transmission and Economic Studies working groups met jointly April 3 to vote on staff’s re-evaluation of the 90-mile Potter-Tolk transmission line.

The NYISO Management Committee voted to recommend rewording the ISO’s coordination agreement with ISO-NE on emergency energy transaction charges.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved an ERCOT request to share confidential generator-specific information with Lubbock Power & Light.

CAISO is seeking to create a new transmission access charge area for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

CAISO has signed a transmission agreement with the Bonneville Power Administration designed to facilitate Energy Imbalance Market transfers.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee and Members Committee discussed the RTO's recent pseudo-tie filing, capacity replacement and fuel-cost policies.

The ERCOT TAC declined to pursue a change in how the ISO commits and dispatches resources, and discussed principles for restarting the markets after outages.

ERCOT stakeholders approved a protocol change that clarifies that the ISO can curtail DC tie loads without having to declare an emergency condition.

The ISO-NE Planning Advisory Committee discussed several changes in the RTO's procedures for 2017 and Eversource's aging transmission towers.

The MISO Board of Directors met and reviewed their quiet winter, aside fromFebruary tornadoes in LA and high congestion charges from a MISO-PJM constraint.