SPP’s on-again, off-again high-priority congestion study of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles region is on once again following approval by the Board.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee directed RTO staff to move forward with a high-priority congestion study that earlier failed to gain traction.

CAISO's Monitor said the ISO must address flaws in its proposal to allow third-party transmission providers to make unused capacity available to the EIM.

SPP stakeholders spent two hours discussing the need for a congestion study in the Texas Panhandle, only to determine that more discussion is needed.

MISO staff and the Independent Market Monitor agreed that the surge in MISO South outages are troubling and should be addressed.

CAISO has begun seeking comment from participants in the Western Energy Imbalance Market on three modifications it’s proposing to make to the market.

MISO proposed creating a new category of narrowly constrained areas (NCAs) identified by momentary congestion and associated market power.

A summary of news out of SPP's Seams Steering Committee and the MISO-SPP Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee.

MISO’s IMM is recommending the RTO expand mitigation measures on constrained areas by creating a new definition aimed at periods of temporary congestion.

MISO and PJM will entertain proposals for interregional reliability projects even though none of the 19 planned reliability upgrades offer opportunities for collaboration.