MISO and SPP announced a yearlong transmission study to identify projects with “comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient upgrades.”

MISO’s and SPP’s market monitors presented their last report to state regulators working to improve the RTOs’ interregional coordination.

Strategically placed transmission or storage devices could serve as a reliability tonic to the Midwest, panelists said during MRO’s reliability conference.

MISO and SPP appear to have come up empty once again after a fourth study failed to detect a joint transmission project.

SPP identified a couple potential joint projects with MISO but none with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.

MISO is not resting after FERC recently accepted its transmission cost allocation plan, promising more such work on long-term and interregional projects.

MISO’s Board of Directors is expected next month to approve MISO and PJM’s first major interregional transmission project.

SPP is facing a two-month delay in gaining FERC approval of the Tariff for its Western Energy Imbalance Service market, staff said.

Two market efficiency projects approved by MISO face continued obstacles, while two others slated for inclusion in MTEP 19 must wait longer for approval.

MISO and SPP are both recommending the RTOs take another stab this year at a coordinated system plan in their elusive pursuit of an interregional project.