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

MISO announced this week that it’s contemplating adding a class of smaller, congestion-relieving projects under its annual transmission planning.

SPP is working to strengthen its relationship with public interest organizations in addressing the evolving grid and its continued focus on decarbonization.

MISO and PJM are assessing the need for an interregional study and transmission plan this year.

MISO and SPP said that they will create a Targeted Market Efficiency Project study process to look for even more interregional project opportunities.

MISO and SPP said they will likely establish a smaller interregional project type, which could produce the two's first cross-border transmission project.

MISO, SPP won’t do a major interregional transmission study in 2021; they are focusing on a joint targeted interconnection queue study.

SPP and MISO regulators would like to see the RTOs improve seams relations by resolving rate pancaking and adding a smaller interregional project category.

MISO’s and SPP’s market monitors presented their last report to state regulators working to improve the RTOs’ interregional coordination.

Fresh off the approval of their first interregional transmission project, MISO and PJM are now contemplating a new study this year.