MISO and SPP plan to file a slightly revised version of proposed changes to their JOA aimed at making an interregional transmission project more attainable.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team wrapped up the educational portion of its work and will now begin refining high-level recommendations to the board.

The Department of Energy convened to gather information for the department’s 2019 electric transmission congestion study.

MISO and SPP agreed to file changes to their joint operating agreement that they say will smooth the approval of interregional projects.

SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.

MISO and PJM have whittled 20 prospective targeted market efficiency projects (TMEPs) down to two.

Transmission planning in the Eastern Interconnection is well-coordinated among its planning authorities, according to EIPC.

MISO said it will approve New Orleans’ request to make the city a cost allocation zone but is deferring action on an interregional cost-sharing plan by TOs.

Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.

Regulators from the SPP and MISO footprints are banding together to take on seams issues created by what one industry expert calls “RTO gerrymandering.”