Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

A month after its capacity auction revealed a Midwestern supply scarcity, MISO’s Independent Market Monitor and a MISO vice president debated the path forward.

MISO and SPP’s inaugural Common Seams Initiatives meeting discussed transmission reconfigurations and the search for interregional transmission projects.

SPP staff are conducting internal discussions on how they manage MISO constraints in the day-ahead market as part of the RTOs’ market-to-market process.

Anxiety over clogged interconnection queues and the need for more interregional transmission loomed large at the Energy Bar Association’s annual meeting.

The Organization of MISO States is preparing a letter to MISO leadership to stress resource adequacy work following the last month’s capacity auction.

MISO is forming the planning analyses that will decide the fate of the contentious Hartburg-Sabine Junction project, but some stakeholders have concerns.

MISO and SPP say this year’s coordinated system plan study will focus on “solutions to historical, persistent congestion issues” on the RTOs’ seam.

MISO’s June listening session with its Board of Directors will concentrate on how the RTO and its members are tackling the nationwide Great Resignation.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved the RTO’s fourth competitive transmission project, awarding a $55 million, 345-kV facility to NextEra Energy Transmission.