Advanced Energy Economy on Tuesday hosted a panel of industry experts and regulators who evaluated the progress of RTOs/ISOs toward Order 2222 compliance.

FERC has authorized a MISO settlement that will replace a rate schedule for use of transmission between its Midwest and South regions.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee approved a task force’s recommended framework to manage DC tie revenue-requirement recovery in the proposed RTO West.

SPP is searching for ways to advocate change in the natural gas industry following the latter's role in February’s disastrous winter storm outages.

Panelists at a FERC technical conference on energy and ancillary services markets agreed that rules should be changed to incent new resource types.

CAISO paused its WEIM EDAM effort last year but renewed it Wednesday amid a growing push for greater Western regionalization and market coordination.

Reliability and clean energy related public policies are increasing the need for and benefits of large-scale transmission to avoid increased electricity costs.

MISO and SPP said a weak economic showing isn’t a dealbreaker to build transmission projects accommodating generation in their jammed interconnection queues.

Grid planners need more input on policy and a reliability “safety valve,” the Eastern Interconnection Planning Collaborative said in a new paper.

Major Western utilities plan to discuss coordinated market services and the possible formation of an organized market in an exploratory group.