CAISO said it had finalized agreements to provide reliability coordinator services with 32 transmission operators and balancing authorities in the West.

For a historic moment for SPP, the ascension of two women to the RTO’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee leadership was fairly low-key.

SPP’s interregional relations staff shared with the Seams Steering Committee their strategic vision for seams efforts through 2021.

SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.

Both SPP and ERCOT set new records for wind generation, with SPP producing a new wind peak of 16.4 GW after ERCOT topped out at 19.2 GW.

MISO and SPP plan to file a slightly revised version of proposed changes to their JOA aimed at making an interregional transmission project more attainable.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved Holly Carias and Denise Buffington as chair and vice chair, respectively, of the Markets and Operations Policy Committee.

FERC approved SPP’s plan to streamline the process by which it designates frequently constrained areas, and it denied a complaint by NPPD.

MISO asked for ideas on transmission projects to relieve congestion in MISO South and near the SPP-MISO seam as the Entergy transition nears its end.

FERC denied SPP’s request for waivers from regulations guiding the treatment of information in its explanation of how it allocated costs related to a fine.