SPP’s Regional State Committee endorsed a report on wind-rich areas and several recommendations related to the effort to improve its planning processes.

MISO and SPP regulators are considering an analysis of the interregional planning process to supplement the seams coordination analysis already underway.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor intends to reduce its monitoring of physical withholding by small behind-the-meter generators in the footprint.

The Organization of MISO States issued a set of principles intended to guide the RTO’s approach to long-term transmission planning.

A key annual capacity report issued by MISO and the Organization of MISO States (OMS) predicts the RTO is unlikely to soon face a shortfall in generation.

The SPP Regional State Committee approved a recommendation to engage the RTO’s MMU and the MISO Monitor to conduct a joint analysis on seams issues.

Stakeholders gave MISO leadership mixed signals on what they expect from seams policy, though they agreed the RTO shouldn’t strive for exacting consistency in how it deals with different neighbors.

State regulators are bringing in the MISO and SPP market monitors to help solve seams issues between the two RTOs.

Benjamin Sloan, a former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, will become the Organization of MISO States’ new director of regulatory affairs.

State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, stakeholders learned.