At last week's MISO Planning Advisory Committee, stakeholders predicted that the proposed changes to the interconnection queue will face challenges at FERC.

MISO and PJM have nearly completed their work on joint operating agreement and tariff language to create the new targeted market efficiency project (TMEP) type.

MISO and PJM are seeking to hammer out new joint operating agreement (JOA) language that would allow accelerated approval of short-term projects.

MISO and the SPP Seams Steering Committee have ended months of uncertainty by agreeing to a second joint system study.

SPP set yet another wind penetration record, surpassing ERCOT, while the Seams Steering Committee agreed to a joint transmission study with MISO.

The threshold was identified as an obstacle to transmission projects that could ease constraints along the PJM-MISO seam.

MISO and SPP concluded their first joint study process, saying the exercise was a valuable learning experience even though it failed to produce a single interregional project.

MISO said last week it is continuing discussions with SPP on one interregional project, despite earlier staff recommendations to not proceed.

News that MISO is reconsidering a market congestion project in Southern Indiana sparked renewed complaints from developers over the RTO’s transmission planning processes.

A list of joint transmission projects between MISO and SPP has been trimmed and sent further down the line toward possible board approval late this year.