Benjamin Sloan, a former attorney in the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office, will become the Organization of MISO States’ new director of regulatory affairs.

An SPP group has been unable to reach a consensus on possible revisions to cost-allocation rules for wind-rich areas and may table their year-long review.

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.

MISO, SPP and their stakeholders have been flummoxed in recent years by market coordination. At the NARUC annual meetinig, the regulators stepped in.

Two members of the SPP Regional State Committee (RSC), commissioners Randy Christmann of North Dakota and Kristie Fiegen of South Dakota, won re-election.

SPP’s Regional State Committee elected its slate of officers for next year and paid tribute to departing members.

Regulators from the SPP and MISO footprints are banding together to take on seams issues created by what one industry expert calls “RTO gerrymandering.”

After serving on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission since 2008, Dana Murphy has set her sights on the lieutenant governor’s office.

The SPP Regional State Committee tasked its Cost Allocation Working Group with drafting a report on new members' (such as Mountain West) impact on existing cost allocation.

SPP’s Regional State Committee will later this month begin taking a lead role in the integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group.