The SPP Strategic Planning Committee endorsed the Competitive Transmission Process Task Force’s recommendations for improving the competitive solicitation process for transmission projects under FERC Order 1000.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee discussed behind-the-meter generation and the Lubbock migration to ERCOT.

The Southwest Power Pool Exit Study Task Force, formed to provide technical support and advice regarding the Lubbock Power & Light move to ERCOT, conducted its first meeting last week.

FERC Order 1000 is providing savings to ratepayers, but a lack of transparency in RTOs’ competitive solicitations is undermining confidence, speakers told the Energy Bar Association Mid-Year Energy Forum last week.

At the PJM Planning Committee last week, the RTO laid out a timeline for compliance with the geomagnetic disturbance reliability standard approved by FERC.

NYISO forwarded to New York regulators 12 proposals for transmission projects to help the state meet its public policy objectives.

MISO and PJM have nearly completed their work on joint operating agreement and tariff language to create the new targeted market efficiency project (TMEP) type.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

The MISO Planning Advisory Committee discussed the second draft of the 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan report and a draft scope for the Regional Transmission Overlay Study.

Stakeholders support the MISO push to revise its cost allocation process for market efficiency projects, but their suggested approaches are a mixed bag.