SPP staff are expected to return to the MOPC with a proposal for a “strategic survey” following numerous occurrences of conservative operations last summer.

SPP stakeholders delayed a decision over the weighting of futures and the use of economic must-run modeling in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.

An August energy emergency alert that had SPP one contingency away from shedding load has renewed calls for scarcity pricing to ensure adequate reserves.

SPP members moved to eliminate Z2 revenue credits for sponsored transmission upgrades, the source of years of stakeholder frustrations and jokes.

SPP asked MOPC members to provide their input on a proposal to consolidate the 16 stakeholder groups that report to the committee.

SPP ended eight days of conservative operations last week, just in time to meet near-record demand in its 14-state footprint.

SPP General Counsel Paul Suskie laid out the implications of FERC’s reversal of a waiver it had previously issued to the RTO on Tariff Attachment Z2.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

For a historic moment for SPP, the ascension of two women to the RTO’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee leadership was fairly low-key.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved Holly Carias and Denise Buffington as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Markets and Operations Policy Committee.