MISO and SPP are asking for stakeholder ideas on how they can cost share joint transmission projects that allow new generator interconnections.

MISO and SPP's joint targeted interconnection queue study turned up the first transmission projects that could help generation interconnect near the seams.

FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.

SPP CEO Barbara Sugg briefed WECC’s Board of Directors last week on the RTO’s efforts in the Western Interconnection and potential benefits for stakeholders there, including full membership in SPP’s proposed RTO West. SPP operates as a reliability coordinator in parts of the West and is helping the Northwest Power Pool develop a multistate resource …

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SPP accrued $13.25 million in market-to-market settlements from MISO for April, pushing its total to $146.63 million since the process began in 2014.

FERC has opened a Section 206 proceeding against Tri-State G&T following complaints that its proposed exit-fee requirements are unjust and unreasonable.

FERC rejected SPP's proposed Tariff revision establishing a cost-allocation waiver process related to the RTO's highway/byway methodology.

February’s winter storm, which threw Texas and much of the Midwest into a deep freeze, remains a hot topic as seen at recent industry conferences.

Xcel's Public Service Company of Colorado decided to delay its entry into CAISO's Western Energy Imbalance Market in order to re-examine its decision.

MISO and SPP state regulators are trying to inventory the instances and costs of duplicate transmission charges along their seams to mitigate rate pancaking.