NYISO’s Business Issues Committee voted to recommend the Management Committee approve Tariff changes intended to help speed up the interconnection process.

MISO is considering updating solar and wind generation dispatch assumptions in its reliability planning models with projections rather than historical data.

SPP CEO Nick Brown told the board and Members Committee that a recent FERC-NERC report confirmed the RTO’s position on MISO’s use of its system.

FERC accepted SPP’s proposal to refine its generator interconnection procedures by instituting a three-stage study process.

MISO is considering a fast-track process for “shovel-ready” generation projects in response to criticism its rules don’t work for renewables, which now represent almost 90% of the RTO’s interconnection queue.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

FERC approved the MISO plan to cut some duplicate analyses from the first phase of its generation interconnection queue.

Infocast’s first SPP and MISO Markets Summit attracted participants and industry representatives from the RTOs’ footprints for panel discussions.

MISO stakeholders are concerned over the RTO’s generator retirement proposal, saying it could result in conflicts over transmission interconnection service rights.

FERC ordered new rules to increase the transparency and timeliness of the generator interconnection process.