SPP’s average hourly load was off 7% last fall from the previous two years, the RTO’s MMU said in its latest quarterly State of the Market report.

Utilities are hoping their participation in SPP's WEIS market will be the "first step" to full RTO membership.

The SPP Board of Directors formally recognized the MOPC’s revamped structure by approving the revised scopes for the committee’s various subgroups.

El Paso Electric, a utility that serves more than 400,000 customers in Texas and New Mexico, plans to join CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market in 2023.

SPP successfully launched its WEIS market, making it the first RTO with power markets in both the Western and Eastern Interconnections.

SPP regulators agreed to keep up their collaboration with MISO regulators, saying the effort is pressuring the RTOs to resolve their seams issues.

Stakeholders in SPP’s Western Imbalance Service market unanimously approved its Feb. 1 launch, the last major milestone in a project that began in 2019.

SPP staff and stakeholders have added an accelerated decarbonization future to the RTO’s 20-year long-term assessment.

SPP has hired former FERC senior staffer Leonard Tao to serve as its first director of FERC policy.

SPP is attempting to balance staff and stakeholder time spent on analysis and studies with the need to adapt to a changing business environment.