Interregional transmission planning challenges and the growth of renewable energy, particularly wind power were among the topics of discussion at the 2018 Mid-America Regulatory Conference.

SPP announced it intends to serve as a reliability coordinator in the Western Interconnection by late 2019.

FERC is seeking more specifics on MISO’s plan for reserve procurement enhancement in MISO South.

FERC officials and RTO executives still had more questions than answers this week regarding the Department of Energy’s (DOE) plans for rescuing at risk nuclear and coal plants.

GridLiance and Tri-County Electric Cooperative announced they have joined a settlement agreement with AEP related to the company’s proposed Wind Catcher Energy Connection.

The Texas PUC quickly approved a second draft order of Southwestern Public Service’s (SPS) request for a certificate of convenience and necessary for its 478-MW wind farm.

Kansas and Missouri regulators approved Great Plains Energy’s merger with Westar Energy, the final hurdles in a stock-for-stock merger of equals.

FERC approved SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions to incorporate Tri-State Generation as a new transmission owner in an existing pricing zone.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) has begun to decide on how to "eat the elephant," in the words of group leader Tom Kent.

SPP’s winter real-time prices increased 4.6% from the previous year, according to the Market Monitoring Unit’s latest quarterly State of the Market report.