MISO and PJM will pursue two separate interregional studies this year to identify potential joint transmission projects, the stakeholders learned during an IPSAC conference call.

MISO and PJM will decide by May 18 whether to undertake a coordinated system plan study this year, the RTOs said.

MISO and SPP are ready to reform their interregional planning process to improve their shot at producing their first cross-border transmission project.

MISO is weighing how it can improve its interregional process and joint operating agreement with SPP to make it easier to develop cross-seams projects.

MISO and PJM will decide this spring whether to take another shot at a two-year coordinated system plan.

SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.

MISO and PJM have withdrawn their support for developing the lone efficiency project to emerge from the RTOs’ two-year coordinated system plan.

FERC approved a joint MISO-PJM proposal to create a new category of small interregional transmission projects intended to address historical congestion.

Seven of the eight stakeholder-originated project proposals evaluated by MISO and PJM are not expected to pass the RTOs’ benefit threshold.

Having agreed on a first potential interregional transmission project with MISO, SPP is moving the 115-kV line in South Dakota through regional review.