Xcel Energy says repair costs for two radioactive water leaks since last November at its Monticello nuclear plant “were not significant.”

FERC has approved SPP tariff revisions of resource adequacy requirements that would provide LREs with an alternative approach to deficiency payments.

Entergy told financial analysts that it is investing to improve reliability and resilience and “significantly” expand its clean energy footprint.

SPP Markets+ stakeholders kicked off the development phase of a proposed “RTO-light” service in the West, heating up the race with CAISO.

FERC denied Tenaska’s rehearing request over alleged curtailment of its Clear Creek Wind Farm, maintaining the company did not provide sufficient evidence.

FERC has rejected SPP tariff revisions that would help transmission owners continue to self-fund network upgrades to interconnect generators.

Renewable PPA offer prices continued to rise in the first quarter of 2023, up one-third over a year earlier.

FERC commissioners weighed the pros and cons of Western regionalization, which one commissioner likened to dating, at the CREPC-WIRAB spring meeting in Nevada.

SPP staff and stakeholders spent much of last week’s virtual Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting discussing resource adequacy.

Panelists at the CREPC-WIRAB spring meeting argued over whether the West would benefit more from a day-ahead market run by CAISO or with another run by SPP.