FERC denied a rehearing request by SPP transmission owners of its earlier decision on the allocation of transmission costs.

SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to remove AEP’s Wind Catcher project from the 2019 ITP assessment scope.

WECC focused on the issues and challenges surrounding the balkanization of reliability coordination in the Western Interconnection at its annual meeting.

CAISO is poised to take the lion’s share of the West in the competition for reliability coordinator (RC) customers, WECC revealed.

WAPA said its Sierra Nevada region will go with CAISO for RC services, while its Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest regions will go with SPP.

The SPP Regional Entity’s Board of Trustees officially terminated the RE’s regional delegation agreement, effective 5 p.m. CT on Aug. 31.

Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chair Dana Murphy came up short in her bid to become the state’s lieutenant governor.

SPP will be a key player in the Western Interconnection, having agreed to administer a tariff that mitigates congestion via controllable devices.

The number of reliability coordinators in the Western Interconnection should come into focus on Sept. 4, WECC CEO Frye told the NERC Board of Trustees.