FERC opened a Section 206 investigation into inconsistencies in MISO’s Tariff after re-examining the 2016 termination of a wind farm’s GIA.

Stakeholders approved PJM’s 2017 installed reserve margin (IRM) calculations at last week’s Planning Committee meeting.

MISO planners continue to sift through the largest batch of interconnection queue applications in a decade while still working out lingering details.

FERC has rejected a MISO plan to shorten the number of days allowed to customers negotiating a generator interconnection agreement.

MISO officials presented three proposals related to the implementation of the RTO’s new generator interconnection queue for stakeholder feedback.

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.