FERC resolved a dispute over overlapping congestion charges on the MISO-SPP seam when it accepted a settlement SWEPCO and the city of Prescott, Ark.

FERC reiterated that non-transmission owning members of SPP are still subject to a $50,000 deposit for if they withdraw from the RTO.

FERC approved SPP’s revisions to its joint operating agreement with MISO that improve pseudo-tie coordination requirements between the RTOs.

FERC accepted Tri-State's petition that recognizes the cooperative became jurisdictional to the commission when it added its first non-utility member.

SPP‘s Western Energy Imbalance Service executive committee stood up the working group responsible for developing and maintaining the market’s protocols.

When ERCOT instituted mandatory work-from-home requirements, spokesperson Leslie Sopko encountered one major distraction of working from home: children.

Four Colorado utilities decided to join CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market instead of SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service because of the economic benefits.

SPP staff shared a draft congestion study with the RTO's Seams Steering Committee on the effect of MISO’s contract path to its southern footprint.

SPP canceled all in-person stakeholder meetings through April and replaced them with virtual meetings in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus.

MISO and SPP are both recommending the RTOs take another stab this year at a coordinated system plan in their elusive pursuit of an interregional project.