A summary of news out of SPP's Seams Steering Committee and the MISO-SPP Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee.

MISO’s IMM is recommending the RTO expand mitigation measures on constrained areas by creating a new definition aimed at periods of temporary congestion.

MISO and PJM will entertain proposals for interregional reliability projects even though none of the 19 planned reliability upgrades offer opportunities for collaboration.

The MISO Board of Directors met and reviewed their quiet winter, aside fromFebruary tornadoes in LA and high congestion charges from a MISO-PJM constraint.

General assumptions regarding winter operations will need to be replaced with actual data to improve PJM’s winter resource adequacy analysis.

The odds of SPP and MISO conducting a second joint study dropped as the RTOs’ reviews are not lining up. Plus the Z2 Task Force is narrowing alternatives.

MISO and PJM staff proposed a solution to the double counting of congestion for pseudo-tied resources, a fix that could apply to those between MISO and SPP.

The PJM Operating Committee discussed a recent performance assessment hour simulation and debated replacing a phase angle regulator.

SPP officials and stakeholders the RTO's plethora of wind energy, the search for a new Market Monitoring Unit director and Mountain West Transmission Group.

FERC rejected rehearing requests on the PJM financial transmission rights (FTR) market in time for implementation of changes in the 2017 ARR allocation.