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

SPP and MISO staff shared with the SPP Seams Steering Committee additional details on the yearlong transmission study the RTOs will soon pursue.

Two recently announced special transmission planning efforts could have MISO members soon stringing miles of new wires across the footprint.

MISO and SPP announced a yearlong transmission study to identify projects with “comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient upgrades.”

MISO’s and SPP’s market monitors presented their last report to state regulators working to improve the RTOs’ interregional coordination.

Strategically placed transmission or storage devices could serve as a reliability tonic to the Midwest, panelists said during MRO’s reliability conference.

MISO and SPP appear to have come up empty once again after a fourth study failed to detect a joint transmission project.

SPP identified a couple potential joint projects with MISO but none with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.

MISO is not resting after FERC recently accepted its transmission cost allocation plan, promising more such work on long-term and interregional projects.

MISO’s Board of Directors is expected next month to approve MISO and PJM’s first major interregional transmission project.