A round-up of news from the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on July 14 and 15.

SPP's Z2 credit project, years in development and the source of much member frustration, is on track to be completed in 2016.

SPP members approved four over-budget transmission projects and sent three others back to the drawing board amid widespread criticism of the process used to estimate project costs.

SPP's Markets & Operations Policy Committee voted to move the deadline for day-ahead market offers up 90 minutes to 9:30 a.m. CT.

SPP will soon file a full report on the Integrated Marketplace’s first year of performance, but its most recent quarterly State of the Market report indicates the market expansion hasn’t affected the fundamental dynamics in the region.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee will vote this week on a recommendation to move the deadline for day-ahead market offers up 90 minutes to 9:30 a.m. CT.

SPP used social media recently to announce its membership had hit 90 with the addition of three cooperatives and an investor-owned utility that joined the RTO as part of the Integrated System.

NYISO and SPP told FERC last week it should reject transmission developers’ protests to their recent Order 1000 compliance filings.

Grid operators have asked CFTC to remove language from a draft order that they say could undermine the broad exemptions the commission granted them in 2013.

A list of joint transmission projects between MISO and SPP has been trimmed and sent further down the line toward possible board approval late this year.