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.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team wrapped up the educational portion of its work and will now begin refining high-level recommendations to the board.

SPP stakeholders directed the Seams Steering Committee to stop work on a proposed a waiver from charges for unreserved transmission use across the seams.

SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.

SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.

SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to remove AEP’s Wind Catcher project from the 2019 ITP assessment scope.

The SPP MOPC agreed to create a task force to evaluate a proposal that would change the recovery mechanism for the RTO’s administrative fee.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee approved the Integrated Transmission Planning process’s 2018 near-term assessment portfolio.

SPP officials were questioned as to why the Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) was created and approved behind closed doors.