SPP stakeholders endorsed the RTO’s latest transmission planning assessment but also withheld approval of a 345-kV, double-circuit project in West Texas.

Members praised work done by PJM in the stakeholder process in the development of new rules for the interconnection process.

FERC settled two disputes over waivers from SPP’s generator interconnection procedures, approving one, denying the other, with Mark Christie dissenting on both.

ISO-NE stakeholders approved tariff changes that incorporate a new transmission planning process focused beyond the RTO’s current 10-year planning horizon.

FERC upheld its July dismissal of a complaint by Hecate Energy that Central Hudson and NYISO delayed its 20-MW solar generation project in Greene County, N.Y.

MISO and SPP said a weak economic showing isn’t a dealbreaker to build transmission projects accommodating generation in their jammed interconnection queues.

MISO staff said project withdrawals from its record-setting 150-GW interconnection queue are imminent.

MISO's interconnection queue currently stands at a record-breaking 153 GW after the RTO processed 2021 applicants. 

A cycle of generation projects in MISO’s Central planning region has accrued a whopping $2 billion in upgrades in order to connect to the transmission system. 

MISO will make a fourth-quarter filing to slim its interconnection queue timeline from about 505 days to a single year.