FERC approved the request from SPP to issue price corrections and resettlements stemming from the OPPD retirement of its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant.

Another wave of arctic cold in the South has ERCOT and SPP revising their winter peak records.

With an Arctic cold front rolling through the southern part of its footprint Tuesday morning, SPP set a new winter demand peak of 42.71 GW. The previous mark of 41.01 GW — set Jan. 2 — lasted only two weeks.

SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.

Clean Line Energy Partners said that market realities led the company to sell its Oklahoma assets to NextEra Energy, but is continuing work on other projects.

Lubbock Power & Light filed testimony with the Texas PUC (PUCT) in support of its proposal to move about 430 MW of load from SPP into ERCOT.

Power prices surged along with demand across much of the U.S. as a blast of Arctic air sent temperatures plunging to record lows.

The Dec. 21 FERC order requiring SPP to help fast-start resources set LMPs added one more to-do for the RTO in what is shaping up to be a busy 2018.

FERC accepted Tariff revisions to streamline SPP’s Integrated Transmission Planning (ITP) process, despite opposition from wind developers.

Clean Line Energy Partners sold all of the Oklahoma portion of the Plains & Eastern transmission project to NextEra Energy.