Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has kicked off an effort to develop an alternative rate structure for recovering its administrative costs.

MISO and SPP announced they plan to relax barriers that have prevented them from agreeing to develop interregional projects.

SPP staff told stakeholders that the RTO will not conduct a joint transmission planning study with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. this year.

MISO says it will seek to alter SPP’s practice of levying unreserved transmission use penalties on MISO load-serving entities.

MISO and PJM will pursue two separate interregional studies this year to identify potential joint transmission projects, the stakeholders learned during an IPSAC conference call.

MISO and PJM will decide by May 18 whether to undertake a coordinated system plan study this year, the RTOs said.

MISO and SPP are ready to reform their interregional planning process to improve their shot at producing their first cross-border transmission project.

MISO is weighing how it can improve its interregional process and joint operating agreement with SPP to make it easier to develop cross-seams projects.

MISO and PJM will decide this spring whether to take another shot at a two-year coordinated system plan.