A task force developing cost allocation rules for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff.

The two newest SPP stakeholder groups are taking a look at the future, while also stepping almost a decade into the past to resolve the sticky issue of Tariff Attachment Z2.

The Clean Power Plan poses no threat to reliability in PJM, but compliance costs are highly sensitive to gas prices and whether states go it alone or combine efforts with a regional approach, according to a study released by the RTO.

FERC ordered PJM transmission owners to change how they plan supplemental projects and separately OKd a proposal to exempt low-voltage reliability upgrades from competition.

California and CAISO must significantly upgrade its transmission system to meet its target of generating 50% of its electricity from renewable resources.

MISO told their Planning Subcommittee that it's working to coordinate its generator retirement studies with PJM without changing the RTOs’ Tariffs.

Michigan is asking for another assessment from MISO, this time to study grid transmission improvements across the state’s peninsulas and Canada.

SPP’s engineering staff updated members on the RTO’s current regional and interregional transmission studies during an engineering summit.

Eleven respondents have submitted proposals for the Duff-Coleman project in MISO, the RTO’s first competitive project under FERC Order 1000.

MISO said it will work to improve the role of the Planning Advisory Committee in interregional matters following complaints that the committee was hearing after the fact about IPSAC decisions.