SPP staff’s recommendation that the RTO approve a 21-mile 115-kV line from Walkemeyer to North Liberal as part of a reliability solution in southwestern Kansas failed to win stakeholder endorsement.

MISO management has reiterated its recommendation that $200 million in proposed out-of-cycle projects by Entergy be approved by the RTO.

FERC has asked for comments on the pros and cons of six potential rule changes, proposed by NIPSCO, intended to push PJM and MISO to create cross-border transmission projects.

Two competing transmission developers are challenging selection of Dominion and FirstEnergy by PJM to resolve reliability problems near Pratts, Va.

PJM planners said they will announce their revised recommendation to address stability problems at the Artificial Island nuclear complex at a special TEAC meeting April 28.

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

More than a decade after the MISO-PJM seam was formed, no cross-border projects have been approved and built, NIPSCO said.

Five transmission projects intended to serve New York City and respond to a potential nuclear plant closure suffered setbacks as a divided FERC rejected the developers’ cost allocation proposals and reduced their requested returns on equity.

DP&L is protesting a $106 million transmission project by Dominion under PJM’s 2015 RTEP because of a change in how the project’s costs will be allocated.

FERC said last week that SPP must engage in interregional coordination and cost allocation with SERTP, rejecting the RTO’s request for a limited waiver of Order 1000 requirements.