State regulators in MISO and SPP are making progress on the seams issues that continue to vex the RTOs, but much work remains, stakeholders learned.

SPP saw an increase in price spikes and overall prices during October and November thanks to above-normal scarcity pricing.

SPP has been tasked with providing an outline of comments for submittal to the EPA in response to its proposed rulemaking under Clean Air Act Section 111b.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

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.

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

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.