A round-up of news from the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on July 14 and 15.

SPP members approved four over-budget transmission projects and sent three others back to the drawing board amid widespread criticism of the process used to estimate project costs.

A round-up of news from the PJM Planning Committee on July 9, 2015.

Seven projects proposed by transmission developers for the mid-Hudson region have cleared an initial screening by the staff of the New York PSC.

MISO stakeholders have submitted recommendations for refining the out-of-cycle request process in the wake of transmission developer complaints.

The Supreme Court ruled that EPA acted “unreasonably” when it failed to consider costs before deciding to regulate mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act.

NYISO and SPP told FERC last week it should reject transmission developers’ protests to their recent Order 1000 compliance filings.

A list of joint transmission projects between MISO and SPP has been trimmed and sent further down the line toward possible board approval late this year.

MISO should eliminate the right of transmission owners to dictate how interconnection customers pay for network upgrades, FERC ruled.

FERC again rejected Con Ed's request that it force PJM to recalculate the cost allocation for two transmission upgrades in northern New Jersey.