MISO and SPP are making earnest efforts to coordinate transmission development along their shared seam, according to speakers at MARC.

MARC opened with a study in local Iowa flavor and a grab bag of industry opinions gleaned from a round of questions styled after political interrogations.

SPP and MISO will hold a conference call to discuss their interregional process and joint projects — of which there are currently none.

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

SPP announced the promotions of three longtime executives to senior vice president positions, though their areas of responsibilities will not change.

SPP CEO Nick Brown told the board and Members Committee that a recent FERC-NERC report confirmed the RTO’s position on MISO’s use of its system.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved a package of recommendations intended to expand renewable energy, boost reliability and improve transmission planning.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Chief Executive Officer Nick Brown will retire in April 2020 after 35 years with the RTO, 16 as its CEO.

Missouri regulators are completing a probe into the self-commitment and self-scheduling of generation into wholesale energy markets.

Wind generation accounted for more than a third of SPP’s energy production during April, according to the RTO’s Market Monitoring Unit.