SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team wrapped up the educational portion of its work and will now begin refining high-level recommendations to the board.

MISO’s Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan in its entirety despite stakeholder objections.

MISO stakeholders said impact to customers and solid business cases should factor prominently in any new regional transmission package.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved a more than 8% reduction in the RTO’s administrative fee for 2019, although the fee is projected to rise again in 2020.

ERCOT’s Technical Advisory Committee endorsed a staff suggestion to increase by 50% the boundary thresholds used to project future loads in Far West Texas.

MISO had its revised cost allocation proposal for the RTO’s targeted market efficiency projects with PJM approved by FERC.

Energy Storage is glaringly absent from MISO’s potential plans to manage a possible 40% renewable penetration on the grid, stakeholders told the RTO.

FERC ok'd cost allocations for 60 transmission projects added to PJM’s RTEP, including high-voltage projects allocated entirely to a Dominion Energy zone.

FERC granted FirstEnergy Services’ request to recover “prudently incurred abandonment costs” from Transource Energy’s Independence Energy Connection.

MISO said it has selected NextEra Energy Transmission Midwest to construct the Hartburg-Sabine junction project, wrapping up months of evaluation.