SPP told the Seams Steering Committee they have begun preliminary interregional transmission planning discussions with Canadian electric utility SaskPower.

The NYISO Business Issues Committee approved several manual and Tariff revisions, and received the monthly Broader Regional Markets and operations reports.

MISO and PJM said they will propose changes to how they determine flowgate rights in a white paper in November.

SPP and MISO are reviewing a draft of their 2019 Coordinated System Plan, which will determine the need for any interregional transmission projects.

PJM proposed an alternative stakeholder process to implement market rule changes recommended in a special report on the RTO’s role in the GreenHat default.

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

MISO and PJM challenged the contention by MISO’s Independent Market Monitor that PJM’s two long-term market-to-market (M2M) errors have cost MISO millions.

SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.

SPP set several new records for wind generation, lending further credence to its claims that it can handle wind-penetration levels as high as 75%.

The MISO Board of Directors learned about the recent discovery that PJM had been committing two market-to-market (M2M) errors.