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.

MISO’s new Integrated Roadmap format did not go over well with RTO members, judging by their comments at a special workshop.

The MISO Board of Directors’ Markets Committee agreed to fund the RTO’s share of its seams coordination analysis with SPP.

For the first time, MISO has found a loss-of-load risk outside of summer months, and said it may be more evidence for seasonal capacity supplies.

MISO and its Monitor are making several changes to market mitigation procedures — most of which will increase the IMM’s authority to mitigate and penalize.

MISO signaled it’s ready to address calls from its Monitor and members to tighten capacity deliverability requirements, but some are concerned about costs.

MISO has proposed limiting extended planned outages to fewer than 90 days to qualify for participation in its Planning Resource Auction.

MISO is still reviewing FERC’s recent proposal that NERC develop cold weather reliability standards.

MISO is nearing its goal of an October FERC filing to solidify its first, limited set of storage-as-transmission assets rules.