The Texas PUC held off on giving its final blessing to $1.37 billion worth of transactions involving Oncor, Sharyland Utilities and Sempra Energy.

FERC ordered SPP to eliminate its membership exit fee for non-transmission owners, granting a complaint by wind developers.

The SPP-MISO Joint Planning Committee has voted to begin a new coordinated system plan this year, SPP staff told the RTO’s Seams Steering Committee.

FERC issued deficiency letters to all six jurisdictional RTOs and ISOs over their proposed energy storage rules, pressing for definitions, tariff citations and other details.

SPP has made its long-held interest in the West official by “calling on interested utilities and other customers” to help build a real-time market “that will meet the electricity needs of the Western Interconnection.”

The Midwest Reliability Organization Board of Directors reviewed the transition of former SPP Regional Entity members to MRO.

SPP said it is confident it will meet its first major target in providing reliability coordination services to 12% of the Western Interconnection’s load.

Stakeholders gave MISO leadership mixed signals on what they expect from seams policy, though they agreed the RTO shouldn’t strive for exacting consistency in how it deals with different neighbors.

FERC ordered MISO and SPP to make additional Tariff changes to comply with the transparency requirements of Order 844 while approving PJM’s filing.

The Texas PUC formally approved Rayburn Country Electric Cooperative’s request to move about 12% of its load and transmission facilities from SPP into ERCOT