Texas' PUC denied El Paso’s request for an extension of settlement negotiations, maintaining the agreement deadline in the acquisition of El Paso Electric.

SPP's Monitor released a paper detailing a study of generator self-commitments in the market, yielding evidence they exert downward pressure on prices.

Storage industry and assorted regulators, financiers, and utility and RTO representatives gathered for the GreenTech Media Energy Storage Summit 2019.

Two environmental groups that say regulated utilities’ practice of self-committing coal plants is costing ratepayers have a point, RTO officials said.

State regulators working to improve MISO-SPP interregional planning processes and seams issues drew interested onlookers to their latest committee meeting.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee met at NextEra Energy’s corporate headquarters in Juno Beach, Fla., to discuss the RTO's new strategic plan.

SPP COO Carl Monroe, one of the key players behind the grid operator’s growing footprint, has said he will retire in early 2020.

Louisiana regulator Foster Campbell broadened his complaint over RTO expenses with a letter challenging SPP's and MISO's spending.

SPP told the Seams Steering Committee they have begun preliminary interregional transmission planning discussions with Canadian electric utility SaskPower.

SPP’s energy prices and average hourly load this summer were below 2018 levels, while generator outages and congestion both increased, the RTO’s MMU said.