The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee discussed the logistics of adding Mountain West Transmission Group and MMU recommendations.

SPP officials and stakeholders the RTO's plethora of wind energy, the search for a new Market Monitoring Unit director and Mountain West Transmission Group.

The Southwest Power Pool Exit Study Task Force, formed to provide technical support and advice regarding the Lubbock Power & Light move to ERCOT, conducted its first meeting last week.

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit filed its 2015 State of the Market report with FERC, saying the Integrated Marketplace’s second year of operation showed “significant maturing.”

Less than a year after enjoying a 2-cent reduction in SPP’s administrative fee, the RTO’s members are now facing the prospect of a 4-cent hike for 2017.

SPP executives had “inappropriate” involvement in the oversight of its Market Monitoring Unit (MMU), FERC says in an audit report that calls for changes.

Coal generation's share of SPP’s energy production continues to slide, according to the RTO’s latest State of the Market report.

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit released its State of the Market report for the winter months, and the RTO and AECI began their biennial study proc