MISO says it will file in October to put stronger obligations and more monetary risk on queue entry to weed out speculative generation projects and take pressure off its overcrowded interconnection queue.

MISO proposes megawatt limits on annual project proposals, tripled entry fees and escalating penalty charges in its quest to oust speculative projects and lighten its gridlocked interconnection queue.

MISO membership and executives last week discussed how to hasten the construction of more than 40 GW of generation projects that have permission to connect to the grid but haven’t been built.

FERC accepted an unexecuted facilities service agreement between SPP, Southwestern Public Service and Ponderosa Wind, finding it to be just and reasonable.

FERC denied Tenaska’s rehearing request over alleged curtailment of its Clear Creek Wind Farm, maintaining the company did not provide sufficient evidence.

FERC granted an Oklahoma solar project an extension of its commercial operation deadline while rejecting an Illinois wind project’s waiver request.

MISO will make a fourth-quarter filing to slim its interconnection queue timeline from about 505 days to a single year.

A new FERC rule says MISO interconnection customers with signed agreements can no longer abandon generation projects without assuming financial risk.

Tri-State G&T will cut rates 8% and give members more flexibility to provide their own power.

MISO members have recommended that the RTO’s 2020 Transmission Expansion Plan proceed to final approval in December.