SPP’s Board of Directors has awarded its eighth competitive project and third in 2025 under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV upgrade in the Texas Panhandle.

The SPP board has approved the RTO's 2025 Integrated Transmission Plan that includes four 765-kV projects.

A group of nonprofits suing BPA said its decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s EDAM “violated clear mandates from Congress.”

Reports of the energy storage industry’s demise are greatly exaggerated, experts said during the American Clean Power Association’s annual Energy Storage Summit.

Xcel Energy and AEP both said during their quarterly earnings calls that they have increased their capital investment spend to meet increasing demand from large loads.

MISO and SPP said they will study more than 30 project suggestions — some estimated to cost more than $1 billion apiece — in a four-state area in their pursuit of major, regionally cost-shared transmission projects.

At a time when MISO’s long-term planning is under fire, the Organization of MISO States’ annual meeting featured speakers who vouched for the power of planning.

Golden Spread Electric Cooperative will again appeal a stakeholder group’s rejection of a proposed tariff change that would pre-emptively determine the amount of load SPP's system can handle without requiring additional network upgrades.

Data center-fueled demand growth continues to soar while reserve margins continue to shrink. Meanwhile, the timelines for building load versus building generation and transmission are wildly out of sync.