FERC approved price formation reforms for SPP and set questions around resource accreditation for additional proceedings in a pair of orders issued at its regular monthly meeting.

FERC denied SPP’s waiver request to allow the RTO’s interconnection customers without a pending request to ask for interim interconnection service during a period when the study queue cluster’s window is closed.

SPP’s Resource and Energy Adequacy Leadership Team has closed out 2024 by taking two actions related to the long-term planning reserve margin.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s (R) recent threat during a television interview to “unplug” from SPP may sound like political rhetoric designed to curry favor with his constituents, but the Arkansas-based grid operator is taking the statement seriously.

SPP’s Board of Directors has selected COO Lanny Nickell as its next CEO, effective April 1, replacing the retiring Barbara Sugg following a three-month transition period.

MISO and SPP staff told stakeholders that they will not perform a Coordinated System Plan in 2025 but will accept transmission issues for their annual review early in the year.

SPP’s Board of Directors has approved the winter-weather staging of a pair of transmission projects that have been held up since October by stakeholder concerns.