MISO’s Planning Advisory Committee will vote through Oct. 26 on whether to move most of the RTO’s $3.3 billion 2018 Transmission Expansion Plan forward.

SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.

MISO is considering requiring inverter-based generation seeking to enter the interconnection queue to provide a specific set of calculations.

FERC rejected a proposed MISO maintenance fee, but it approved a new process for interconnecting external merchant HVDC transmission.

MISO announced plans to update its interconnection queue procedures to allow multiple projects to interconnect at one point on the system.

MISO floated a relatively simple straw proposal for treating energy storage as a reliability asset in its annual transmission plan.

MISO is once again poised to file generator interconnection process changes to help manage the record volumes in its queue.

The PJM Markets and Reliability Committee agreed to a one-year delay in adding cost-containment measures to the RTO’s transmission planning process.

MISO staff say the RTO is mostly up to speed with a recent FERC order aimed at increasing the transparency of the generator interconnection processes.

FERC approved MISO's remedy to the discrepancy between the termination provisions in its generator interconnection procedures and GIA.