SPP directors and regulators have approved the grid operator’s first winter planning reserve margin, endorsing a base PRM that is 3 percentage points higher than many of its utilities wanted.

State legislatures across MISO are undertaking a flurry of activity on rights of first refusal legislation as major transmission planning surges.

OGE Energy released its fourth-quarter earnings, which showed continued load growth in its footprint in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Louisiana PSC's Lambert Boissiere is headed for a runoff against an environmental activist in one of nine states whose regulators faced voters election night.

American Electric Power's Traverse Wind Energy Center, the last of three Oklahoma projects with total capacity of 1.5 GW, is now generating electricity.

Vistra's CEO said the company's gas resources will find a home when ERCOT redesigns its market in response to the February winter storm.

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

Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chair Dana Murphy came up short in her bid to become the state’s lieutenant governor.

After serving on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission since 2008, Dana Murphy has set her sights on the lieutenant governor’s office.

AEP beat Wall Street’s expectations with a positive yearend earnings report, but CEO Nick Akins spent much of a conference call with analysts focused on its Oklahoma subsidiary.