The Organization of MISO States issued a set of principles intended to guide the RTO’s approach to long-term transmission planning.

The SPP Regional State Committee approved a recommendation to engage the RTO’s MMU and the MISO Monitor to conduct a joint analysis on seams issues.

SPP’s Regional State Committee endorsed a policy white paper intended to ensure all net peak demand is carrying the appropriate capacity.

Stakeholders gave MISO leadership mixed signals on what they expect from seams policy, though they agreed the RTO shouldn’t strive for exacting consistency in how it deals with different neighbors.

State regulators are bringing in the MISO and SPP market monitors to help solve seams issues between the two RTOs.

Benjamin Sloan, a former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, will become the Organization of MISO States’ new director of regulatory affairs.

An SPP group has been unable to reach a consensus on possible revisions to cost-allocation rules for wind-rich areas and may table their year-long review.

State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, stakeholders learned.

MISO, SPP and their stakeholders have been flummoxed in recent years by market coordination. At the NARUC annual meetinig, the regulators stepped in.

Two members of the SPP Regional State Committee (RSC), commissioners Randy Christmann of North Dakota and Kristie Fiegen of South Dakota, won re-election.