The Missouri PSC is investigating whether the state’s investor-owned utilities’ continued RTO membership “is in the ratepayers’ best interest.”

SPP stakeholders endorsed a 10-year transmission plan that will likely continue to underestimate wind energy development.

MISO and SPP state regulators appear intent on completing their work to improve their interregional coordination before 2021 arrives.

FERC reversed course and said MISO, SPP and PJM don’t have to rely on eachother’s dispatch assumptions to carry out an affected-system study.

Generation developer Competitive Power Ventures is being sold to Tel Aviv-based OPC Energy and Israeli institutional investors.

MISO postponed its attempt to develop modeling software that can accommodate different combinations of combined cycle units.

SPP considered several seams-related projects with MISO through their 2020 ITP, but declined to pursue them over differences in calculating benefits and costs.

FERC approved a cost-and-usage agreement between SPP and AECI that could result in the RTO’s first competitive project under Order 1000.

A request to waive an SPP Tariff requirement prompted a philosophical dispute between FERC Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner James Danly.

FERC accepted two previously rejected unexecuted generator interconnection agreements between SPP, OG&E and a pair of wind farms.