FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

The SPP Board of Directors approved a Tariff change requiring non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable (DVERs).

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

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit (MMU) reported that energy prices averaged about $23/MWh in the spring, despite higher loads.

The SPP Regional Entity will cease all compliance monitoring and enforcement activities at the close of business Friday.

SPP staff told stakeholders that the RTO will not conduct a joint transmission planning study with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. this year.

MISO is seeking stakeholder input for its conceptual study to determine how to incorporate transmission outages into its economic planning models.

MISO’s plan to create external resource zones in its annual capacity auction isn’t detailed enough on several fronts, FERC told the RTO.

SPP and AECI stakeholders approved a scope for a joint study to determine the existence of any mutually beneficial transmission projects.

After almost three years of deliberation, MISO is putting the final touches on a plan to create external resource zones for its annual capacity auction by 2019.