CAISO said it will kick off an initiative to refine its generation interconnection process later this year as part of an effort to accommodate renewables.

NYISO’s Business Issues Committee approved steps intended to improve the efficiency of the interconnection queue process while maintaining needed reliability evaluations.

MISO will begin using its Transmission Expansion Plan dispatch modeling in interconnection queue studies beginning Aug. 1.

Stakeholders are at odds with MISO over some aspects of its interconnection queue rules during a time when the queue is beset by “unprecedented” backlogs.

FERC staff approved MISO’s proposal to allow generators to withdraw from its interconnection queue without penalty if they undergo a three-stage evaluation process.

MISO plans by the end of the year to introduce Tariff changes eliminating resource suspensions in favor of a single retirement process.

Load forecast data for the MISO 2017/18 PRA shows that all local resource zones have enough capacity to meet their clearing requirements.

MISO briefed the System Planning Committee on next steps for the Duff-Coleman transmission project and the new generator interconnection queue rules.

MISO is looking to improve its annual resource adequacy survey by expanding the scope of potential projects included.

The MISO Steering Committee allocated the RTO’s settlement with SPP, a potential cost recovery defect and cost-sharing for customer-funded upgrades.