SPP and MISO staff and stakeholders recommended performing a coordinated system plan in 2019-20 to study 6 possible sites for transmission projects.

MISO and SPP told stakeholders that there is “more support than not” for the RTOs to conduct a joint study of interregional transmission projects in 2019.

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.

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

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

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

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has kicked off an effort to develop an alternative rate structure for recovering its administrative costs.

MISO and SPP announced they plan to relax barriers that have prevented them from agreeing to develop interregional projects.

SPP staff told stakeholders that the RTO will not conduct a joint transmission planning study with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. this year.

MISO says it will seek to alter SPP’s practice of levying unreserved transmission use penalties on MISO load-serving entities.