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

SPP staff unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue.

A recent report concluded that a Western resource adequacy program could require state regulators & utilities to relinquish some control over IRP processes.

MISO said it will approach SPP about improving the processes underpinning affected system studies in response to stakeholders’ persistent calls for change.

It took all of two weeks into the new year before SPP set new peak records for wind and renewable energy output.

SPP and MISO regulators would like to see the RTOs improve seams relations by resolving rate pancaking and adding a smaller interregional project category.

SPP’s Corporate Governance Committee approved nominations for several open positions on stakeholder groups to go before the Board of Directors.

SPP staff assured stakeholders they are looking into the causes of congestion around the MISO seam following a third month of record M2M settlements.

Last year SPP's Board of Directors appointed Barbara Sugg as CEO, and she wasted little time implementing her vision for the RTO.

FERC handed SPP an early Christmas present when it approved the RTO’s second version of a tariff for its five-minute WEIS market.