Lubbock’s City Council and Electric Utility Board both approved a settlement agreement in the LP&L move from SPP to ERCOT.

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.

Lubbock Power & Light told Texas regulators that it continues to hammer out settlement agreements in the utility’s proposed migration from SPP to ERCOT.

The integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group into SPP is on track to meet its October 2019 consummation timeline.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

Texas regulators concluded two days of hearings on Lubbock Power & Light’s proposal to move 70% of its load from SPP to ERCOT.

Real-time price data from 2018 indicate the ISO-NE grid is nearly free of congestion, stakeholders learned during a PAC teleconference.

PJM remains disinclined to create procedures to analyze any other cost containment guarantees beyond construction cost caps.

MISO staff asked the Resource Adequacy Subcommittee (RASC) for feedback on the group’s priorities for 2018 and how the RTO could import capacity from IESO.

MISO’s next capacity auction will likely rely on megawatt values and limits similar to those underpinning last year’s auction.