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WILMINGTON, Del. — Just a month after approving changes that PJM and its Independent Market Monitor felt stripped away important market protections, the Markets and Reliability Committee approved new revisions to reinstate them. The new revisions are similar to an amendment the Monitor and PJM had proposed for the original...

By Rory D. Sweeney VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM proposed modifying an initiative on spot-in transmission by expanding it to all borders. The proposal came despite reservations from Vitol’s Joe Wadsworth, who had won approval for a problem statement and issue charge specific to transactions between NYISO and PJM. (See...

By Rory D. Sweeney WILMINGTON, Del. — A proposed revision to credit requirements for financial transmissions rights participants received significant stakeholder debate before the Markets and Reliability Committee and withered under the scrutiny. [caption id="attachment_36053" align="aligncenter" width="600"] MRC Meeting at Chase Center, Wilmington, Del. | © RTO Insider[/caption] The proposal...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO has selected LS Power’s Republic Transmission to build the RTO’s first competitive transmission project. St. Louis-based Republic and partner Big Rivers Electric, a generation and transmission cooperative in Henderson, Ky., beat out 10 other qualified developers for the Duff-Coleman 345-kV transmission project in Southern Indiana...

FERC on Thursday ordered hearing and settlement procedures in a dispute between Entergy and its customers over the company’s accounting for income taxes and post-retirement benefits in its formula rates tariff (ER16-1528). The commission said the dispute raised unresolved factual issues and that Entergy’s proposed formula rate changes may be...

SPP and MISO continue to study seven potential joint transmission projects across their seam, but much of their focus is now turning to developing the 2017 joint study by next April. Staff from the two RTOs told their Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee on Friday that they have already begun...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO and PJM are not optimistic that they can use common assumptions in their interregional transmission planning. [caption id="attachment_35497" align="alignright" width="200"] Solomon | © RTO Insider[/caption] MISO engineer Adam Solomon told the Planning Subcommittee Dec. 13 that while it is possible to make joint powerflow and economic...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO planners approved an expedited project request in northeast Arkansas and are evaluating three others in Michigan, officials told the Planning Advisory Committee last week. The $3 million Hickman Central project, submitted by Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp. in October, will include a new substation, a quarter-mile line...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa. — PJM’s proposed timeline for reviewing tie-line requests will need another round of revisions before members are comfortable with endorsing it. Two clarifications precluded members from bringing it to an endorsement vote at last week’s Planning Committee meeting. The first concern was an implication that the applicant...