Stakeholders want MISO to develop a smaller, congestion-relieving transmission study after this year’s near-term congestion study focused on how best to sequence transmission outages needed for construction of long-range transmission projects.

A bevy of consumer, clean energy and environmental advocates have joined state regulators in appealing to MISO and PJM to undertake more comprehensive interregional transmission planning.

MISO’s chair said the board may pursue term waivers to enable term-limited members to continue providing guidance and avoiding loss of institutional knowledge.

MISO and PJM will opt for one small interregional project this year through their Targeted Market Efficiency Project study.

MISO and SPP announced that they will not pursue any small interregional projects next year from their first Targeted Market Efficiency Project study.

MISO and SPP have again come up empty in their fifth effort to find interregional projects to solve congestion along their seams.

MISO and SPP prepared stakeholders last week for the possibility they may come up empty-handed in their hunt for smaller interregional transmission upgrades.

MISO and PJM have cut their list of possible targeted market efficiency projects down to two for 2022.

MISO and SPP this week said they have tentatively settled on criteria and will begin developing a first set of smaller interregional transmission projects.

MISO and SPP say they have plenty of constrained flowgates that could become candidates for smaller, cross-border transmission projects.