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By Tom Kleckner In an industry where grid operators often engage in bickering and litigation over their borders, ERCOT and SPP have proven neighbors can also collaborate for the common good. The grid operators’ in-house developers have worked together to produce version 2.0 of the Macomber Map, a visualization tool...

By Amanda Durish Cook MISO transmission owners will be taking a pay cut, as FERC ordered their 12.38% return on equity reduced by more than 2 percentage points. The Wednesday order (EL14-12-002) affirms an administrative law judge’s initial decision in December. The TOs will now receive a 10.32% ROE. With incentives,...

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — ISO-NE planners last week outlined the scope of a needs analysis that will determine whether the RTO will approve transmission upgrades to accommodate wind development in the Keene Road area in Maine. An economic study found that the area could qualify for market efficiency transmission upgrades (METUs)...

By Amanda Durish Cook A proposal by MISO and ITC Holdings to allocate the costs of phase angle regulating transformers (PARs) to entities outside of MISO is not just and reasonable, FERC ruled last week. The commission’s Sept. 22 order upheld Administrative Law Judge Steven Sterner’s 2012 decision prohibiting MISO...

CARMEL, Ind. — MISO posted the second draft of the 2016 Transmission Expansion Plan report last week,  complete except for the executive summary and Appendix A2’s cost allocation explanation. Hellalat © RTO Insider MISO’s Omar Hellalat told the Planning Advisory Committee last week that stakeholder feedback forms, which will be...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — Stakeholders support MISO’s push to revise its cost allocation process for market efficiency projects (MEPs), but their suggested approaches are a mixed bag. By the end of this year, MISO will release a conceptual proposal that may expand its market efficiency voltage threshold...

By Amanda Durish Cook FERC has brushed aside a complaint brought forward by two companies about Ameren Illinois’ annual informational formula rate update and true-up (ER16-1169). In April, Southwestern Electric Cooperative and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative challenged the $214.4 million revenue requirement rate filing on several fronts. Although FERC agreed...

By Amanda Durish Cook CARMEL, Ind. — MISO will file a revised set of interconnection queue changes with FERC on Oct. 21, and this time it says it has “overwhelming” stakeholder support for the changes. Aliff © RTO Insider In its second attempt at a queue reform filing, MISO proposed...

By Michael Brooks and Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — FERC on Thursday approved a NERC reliability standard requiring grid operators to assess and protect against the threat of geomagnetic disturbances (RM15-11). The final rule (Order 830), effective 60 days after its publication in the Federal Register, is nearly identical to...

By Robert Mullin CAISO paid congestion revenue rights holders $27 million more than it took in from CRR auctions during the first half of the year, according to the ISO’s Department of Market Monitoring. That equates to 63 cents in auction revenues for every dollar paid out, leaving California electricity...