MISO is planning to file with FERC in October a proposal to create two new benefit metrics to appraise new market efficiency transmission projects.

Landowner groups opposed to Transource's Independence Energy Connection are directing their activism at PJM.

It remains unclear whether PJM will have new rules in place for evaluating and selecting market efficiency projects by the start of the next RTEP window.

MISO said it will revise its regional cost-sharing practices for interregional projects with SPP to match its process for PJM seams projects.

MISO is delaying release of a final draft of its cost allocation redesign for market efficiency projects because of conflicting stakeholder feedback.

PJM stakeholders are questioning the process for how a transmission development proposal will proceed following a debate at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

American Electric Power’s portion of Duff-Rockport-Coleman project has been placed on hold and will not be modeled in the 2018 RTEP, PJM told the TEAC.

MISO is embarking on a review of its economic planning process in an effort to more accurately capture the benefits of cost-shared transmission projects.

‎MISO is proposing to change its rules for market efficiency projects to include cost allocation for transmission projects under 345 kV.

The MISO Board of Directors met via conference call to grant belated approval of the RTO’s second competitive transmission project from MTEP 17.