SPP stakeholders have rejected a recommendation to stick with the status quo when it comes to adding counterflow optimization to the congestion-hedging process.

SPP’s board approved three tariff revision recommendations related to transmission pricing in local zones and the RTO’s facility cost-allocation process.

SPP stakeholders endorsed the RTO’s latest transmission planning assessment but also withheld approval of a 345-kV, double-circuit project in West Texas.

SPP is searching for ways to advocate change in the natural gas industry following the latter's role in February’s disastrous winter storm outages.

MISO planners stressed the importance of long-range transmission planning at a recent stakeholders' workshop, but some representatives were skeptical.

SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to withdraw a competitive transmission project that was opposed by the incumbent transmission owner, Evergy.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee discussed the RTO's generation interconnection backlog and its performance during February's cold snap.

SPP staff and stakeholders have added an accelerated decarbonization future to the RTO’s 20-year long-term assessment.

SPP is attempting to balance staff and stakeholder time spent on analysis and studies with the need to adapt to a changing business environment.

SPP staff unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue.