Entergy countered claims recently made to FERC that it is purposefully undermining transmission planning in MISO South.

A working group inventorying rate pancaking issues on the MISO-SPP seams have developed a strawman with four recommendations to improve transmission service.

SREA said while MISO may have a robust transmission planning process, FERC should know that the RTO’s South region does not share in it.

LS Power was unsuccessful with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in separate attempts to force MISO to open more projects to competition.

MISO is resisting clean energy developers’ calls to allow penalty-free queue withdrawals for generation projects bogged down by SPP’s affected system studies.

MISO is refreshing its longstanding “parking lot” of improvement ideas submitted to the grid operator; some ideas have been in a holding pattern for years.

Entergy announced that chairman and CEO Leo Denault will step down early next year after a decade at the helm of the utility.

Canadian utility SaskPower and SPP have signed a 20-year agreement to more than quadruple transmission capacity between the two entities.

A panel convened by the American Council on Renewable Energy largely agreed that MISO’s transmission benefits process could be a blueprint for the country.

MISO and SPP say they have plenty of constrained flowgates that could become candidates for smaller, cross-border transmission projects.