SPP says improved wind forecasting and coordination with gas pipelines have the RTO well prepared for the coming winter.

An SPP task force hopes to recommend one of six options for handling $114 million in upgrades under Tariff Attachment Z2 to the Markets and Operations Policy Committee next month.

CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said he will recommend the commission abandon its proposal to allow private rights of action against RTOs and ISOs.

MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint transmission study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting.

A task force developing cost allocation rules for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff.

The two newest SPP stakeholder groups are taking a look at the future, while also stepping almost a decade into the past to resolve the sticky issue of Tariff Attachment Z2.

SPP’s transmission buildout, interregional processes, new generation resources and cyber threats highlighted the Gulf Coast Power Association 3rd annual SPP Regional Conference.

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit filed its 2015 State of the Market report with FERC, saying the Integrated Marketplace’s second year of operation showed “significant maturing.”

SPP’s engineering staff updated members on the RTO’s current regional and interregional transmission studies during an engineering summit.

The PUCT granted ERCOT and SPP a 5-week extension before reporting back on how they'll study Lubbock Power & Light’s move to ERCOT.