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By Amanda Durish Cook INDIANAPOLIS — State regulators in the MISO and SPP footprints are considering an independent analysis of the interregional planning process to supplement the seams coordination analysis already underway by the two RTOs’ market monitors. The Organization of MISO States and the SPP Regional State Committee’s Seams...

By Amanda Durish Cook The Organization of MISO States last week issued a set of principles intended to guide the RTO’s approach to long-term transmission planning. The release of the document comes as MISO and its stakeholders are debating whether the RTO should launch a second regional transmission package similar...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — A key annual capacity report issued by MISO and the Organization of MISO States predicts the RTO is now unlikely to face a near-term shortfall in generation — a welcome reversal of last year’s more worrisome findings. Credit the change to expectations for...

By Tom Kleckner State regulators in SPP and MISO on Monday separately approved recommendations to engage the SPP Market Monitoring Unit and the MISO Independent Market Monitor to conduct a joint analysis on seams issues between the two grid operators. | ACES The SPP Regional State Committee, meeting by conference...

By Tom Kleckner State regulators are bringing in the MISO and SPP market monitors to help solve seams issues between the two RTOs. Potomac Economics' Michael Wander | © RTO Insider The Organization of MISO States and SPP’s Regional State Committee’s Liaison Committee has asked MISO’s Independent Market Monitor Potomac...

By Amanda Durish Cook A former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office will become the Organization of MISO States’ (OMS) new director of regulatory affairs. Benjamin Sloan | © RTO Insider Benjamin Sloan will join OMS beginning March 1. He most recently served as a special assistant attorney general...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, MISO stakeholders learned Tuesday. The Organization of MISO States (OMS) and SPP’s Regional State Committee (RSC) have been meeting since...

By Amanda Durish Cook Marcus Hawkins | © RTO Insider The Organization of MISO States announced Monday that its board of directors has promoted Marcus Hawkins to head the organization, replacing outgoing Executive Director Tanya Paslawski next year. Hawkins, formerly an engineer with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, joined the...

By Amanda Durish Cook The Organization of MISO States is now accepting applicants for a new executive director to replace Tanya Paslawski, who will depart the organization at the end of the year. (See OMS Executive Director to Exit.) OMS office space in Des Moines | Terrus Real Estate OMS...

By Tom Kleckner ORLANDO, Fla. — MISO, SPP and their stakeholders have been flummoxed in recent years by market coordination, interregional planning and other issues across the grid operators’ seam. Now, the regulators are stepping in. On Sunday, state regulators from MISO’s Organization of MISO States and SPP’s Regional State...