FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur visited the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and discuss the Mountain West Transmission Group’s desire to join SPP.

AEP beat Wall Street’s expectations with a positive yearend earnings report, but CEO Nick Akins spent much of a conference call with analysts focused on its Oklahoma subsidiary.

Lubbock Power & Light told Texas regulators that it continues to hammer out settlement agreements in the utility’s proposed migration from SPP to ERCOT.

SPP’s Marketing Monitoring Unit says it is concerned with a “marked increase” in the frequency of negative price intervals.

Texas regulators concluded two days of hearings on Lubbock Power & Light’s proposal to move 70% of its load from SPP to ERCOT.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee decided it will respond to FERC’s request for a definition of “resilience,” rather than turning the effort over to a task force.

SPP told members how it will respond to the FERC order that found the RTO was suppressing investment signals by not allowing quick-start resources to set LMPs.

The integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group into SPP is on track to meet its October 2019 consummation timeline.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee continued to hash through the difficulties of reporting behind-the-meter load.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.