MISO and SPP announced they plan to relax barriers that have prevented them from agreeing to develop interregional projects.

FERC rejected PJM’s proposal to exempt incumbent transmission owners from signing designated entity agreements (DEAs).

FERC has questions on MISO’s plan to transform its retirement notification process into a catch-all three-year suspension period.

It remains unclear whether PJM will have new rules in place for evaluating and selecting market efficiency projects by the start of the next RTEP window.

PJM staff abruptly ended a meeting of the Transmission Replacement Processes Senior Task Force, saying the group was suspended until FERC action.

FERC approved part of PJM’s cost responsibility assignments for its updated RTEP, but rejected cost allocations for four cross-border projects.

NYISO stakeholders again backed joint proposals by North America Transmission (NAT) and NYPA to build two 345-kV transmission projects.

A controversial proposal to bring cost-containment measures into PJM’s transmission planning cleared its final hurdle in the stakeholder process.

SPP staff told stakeholders that the RTO will not conduct a joint transmission planning study with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. this year.

NYISO stakeholders backed joint proposals by North America Transmission and the NYPA to build two 345-kV transmission projects.