SPP CEO Nick Brown told the board and Members Committee that a recent FERC-NERC report confirmed the RTO’s position on MISO’s use of its system.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved a package of recommendations intended to expand renewable energy, boost reliability and improve transmission planning.

Tension among PJM sectors boiled over after members once again deferred a vote on proposed manual revisions regarding supplemental transmission projects.

MISO is evaluating nine projects to supplement or substitute for the contract path on SPP transmission linking its Midwest and South regions.

SPP asked MOPC members to provide their input on a proposal to consolidate the 16 stakeholder groups that report to the committee.

The NEPOOL Reliability and Transmission Committees jointly met to discuss a multitude of governing document changes and transmission upgrades.

MISO and SPP regulators are considering an analysis of the interregional planning process to supplement the seams coordination analysis already underway.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee debated the merits of deterministic versus probabilistic planning approaches during a review of transmission investment.

ISO-NE presented a new draft of the competitive transmission request for proposals template for stakeholder review at the Planning Advisory Committee.

MISO will still pursue major aspects of a transmission proposal that FERC rejected, but is debating keeping its proposed local economic project type.