SPP staff added details to a joint proposal with MISO for replacing their affected systems study process with interregional transmission analyses.

SPP is continuing its delicate dance with Western utilities with a charm offensive that includes a first-hand look at the RTO’s sausage-making process.

FERC has approved MISO's and SPP’s plan to assign a new prioritization of projects in their respective interconnection queues for study purposes.

FERC ordered show-cause proceedings on the transmission formula rate protocols of four utilities in SPP.

FERC permitted GridLiance High Plains to offload its controversial Nixa, Mo., transmission assets to the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission.

MISO and SPP announced that they plan to ditch their current affected systems study process for more interregional transmission studies like their JTIQ study.

FERC commissioners expressed alarm over forecasts of potential supply shortfalls this summer in the West, ERCOT, MISO and SPP.

Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

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

SPP staff are conducting internal discussions on how they manage MISO constraints in the day-ahead market as part of the RTOs’ market-to-market process.