SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.

The Dec. 21 FERC order requiring SPP to help fast-start resources set LMPs added one more to-do for the RTO in what is shaping up to be a busy 2018.

SPP’s Board of Directors and Members Committee approved a 1-cent increase in the RTO’s administrative fee and its 2018 budget.

SPP set several new records for wind generation, lending further credence to its claims that it can handle wind-penetration levels as high as 75%.

The MISO Board of Directors learned about the recent discovery that PJM had been committing two market-to-market (M2M) errors.

PJM and reliability coordinator Peak Reliability announced Thursday they will explore the development of electric markets and other services in the West.

Monitor David Patton said PJM has for years been committing two market-to-market operations errors that have possibly cost MISO millions of dollars.

Texas regulators are concerned that transmission projects along the U.S. border with Mexico may threaten their exclusive jurisdiction over ERCOT.

Despite arguments from a coalition of transmission customers, FERC rejected a rehearing of MISO’s subregional flow limits.

MISO will submit two filings with FERC to further refine its new generation interconnection process, while a third will facilitate HVDC interconnection.