Held every two years, the GridEx conference helps electric utilities and other stakeholders test and improve their security incident response plans.

SPP is pushing a hybrid approach to its congestion-hedging process by first equitably allocating congestion rights and then increasing the pool of awards.

SPP stakeholders approved the ability of market participants facing fuel limitations to include opportunity costs in their mitigated offers.

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

SPP’s Board of Directors approved the RTO’s fourth competitive transmission project, awarding a $55 million, 345-kV facility to NextEra Energy Transmission.

FERC ruled in three SPP dockets involving Tenaska, NorthWestern Energy and Nebraska Public Power District and Tri-State Generation and Transmission.

FERC granted Thunderhead Wind’s request for a waiver of SPP’s interconnection procedures, allowing the RTO to evaluate an alternative interconnection point.

FERC cited the filed rate doctrine on retroactive ratemaking to reject a pair of SPP requests for waivers to resettle billing errors.

SPP stakeholders endorsed a 10-year transmission plan that will likely continue to underestimate wind energy development.

FERC rejected SPP’s request to eliminate Z2 revenue credits for sponsored transmission upgrades, allowing the RTO to submit a revised proposal.