The SPP Transmission and Economic Studies working groups met jointly April 3 to vote on staff’s re-evaluation of the 90-mile Potter-Tolk transmission line.

MISO and PJM are close to implementing a targeted market efficiency project type and poised to approve six such projects with cross-regional benefits.

MISO and PJM have agreed not to publicly talk about the issue of pseudo-tie congestion double-counting until a FERC complaint on the issue is resolved.

MISO will ask FERC to approve new pseudo-tie rules next year, officials said during a Nov. 8 special conference call of the Reliability Subcommittee.

Still unable to reach consensus, PJM members balked again last week at a request from a group of demand-side stakeholders to revisit Capacity Performance.

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit released its State of the Market report for the winter months, and the RTO and AECI began their biennial study proc

MISO stakeholders say they do not expect perfect procedures at the seams with neighboring balancing areas, but they do want the RTO to implement reforms.

SPP and MISO staff told stakeholders a memorandum of understanding between the two RTOs will solve most remaining problems with their M2M process.

Two of three proposed MISO-SPP interregional projects touted to offer $235 million in benefits look much less attractive following additional modeling and are likely doomed.

SPP and MISO met last week with their stakeholders to review the first five months of market-to-market operations between the two RTOs.