State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, stakeholders learned.

With spring season approaching, MISO is encouraging stakeholders to offer ideas to address the growing divide between resource availability and need.

FERC authorized ITC Midwest and American Transmission to recover “prudently incurred costs” if the Cardinal-Hickory Creek project is abandoned or canceled.

MISO’s ongoing market system replacement will focus on moving the platform to the cloud and creating a single means of submitting modeling data.

MISO posted draft 2019/20 Planning Resource Auction data that are virtually unchanged from last year’s early predictions.

SPP’s interregional relations staff shared with the Seams Steering Committee their strategic vision for seams efforts through 2021.

Until MISO files changes to implement stricter requirements for planned outage notification, stakeholders offered alternatives softening the proposal.

The Coalition of Midwest Power Producers filed a complaint with FERC alleging MISO is improperly accounting for the deliverability of capacity resources.

The OMS and the OPSI urged FERC to examine whether current return on equity incentives on top of a new base ROE will result in excessive customer costs.

MISO will spend much of 2019 working on how it can prevent the increasingly frequent emergency conditions it experienced in 2018.