SPP leadership has delayed staff’s return to their offices until at least Jan. 4 because of increasing COVID-19 diagnoses in Arkansas.

MISO and SPP have once again failed to identify any beneficial cross-border transmission projects after a fourth interregional study.

SPP’s board and Members Committee met outside of their normal quarterly schedule to consider a number of pressing issues.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee will see if it can come up with a solution on how to modify the RTO’s congestion-hedging practices.

SPP and MISO staff shared with the SPP Seams Steering Committee additional details on the yearlong transmission study the RTOs will soon pursue.

FERC set hearing and settlement judge procedures for Xcel Energy’s formal challenge to GridLiance High Plains’ proposed annual transmission revenue requirement.

Two recently announced special transmission planning efforts could have MISO members soon stringing miles of new wires across the footprint.

MISO’s and SPP’s state regulators gave the RTOs’ staffs an opportunity to respond to their monitors’ suggestions for improving interregional coordination.

MISO and SPP announced a yearlong transmission study to identify projects with “comprehensive, cost-effective and efficient upgrades.”

SPP says it will begin allowing employees to return to its corporate headquarters in October.