State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, stakeholders learned.

SPP’s interregional relations staff shared with the Seams Steering Committee their strategic vision for seams efforts through 2021.

MISO, SPP and their stakeholders have been flummoxed in recent years by market coordination. At the NARUC annual meetinig, the regulators stepped in.

SPP’s Regional State Committee elected its slate of officers for next year and paid tribute to departing members.

MISO and SPP could jointly create a smaller category of interregional transmission projects as early as next year to address costly congestion.

FERC approved SPP’s proposal to allow generators to include major maintenance costs in their mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

FERC denied a rehearing request by SPP transmission owners of its earlier decision on the allocation of transmission costs.

The SPP Regional Entity’s Board of Trustees officially terminated the RE’s regional delegation agreement, effective 5 p.m. CT on Aug. 31.

Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.