After SPP set the wind penetration record for North American RTOs, recent studies found that it has the potential to serve 75% of its load with wind.

The PJM Operating Committee discussed a recent performance assessment hour simulation and debated replacing a phase angle regulator.

The SPP Seams Steering Committee welcomed two new members, while the RTO set another record for wind generation.

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.

FERC rejected Big Rivers Electric’s request for a waiver to keep MISO interconnection rights for one of its coal plants through late 2017.

Members of the Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) saw increased savings and profits with the addition of Puget Sound Energy and APS.

SPP stakeholders approved a 12% planning reserve margin, a new demand curve and 10 revision requests at the Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting.

SPP stakeholders endorsed $201.5 million in transmission projects despite objections from several entities.

MISO told the Planning Advisory Committee that it will conduct three new separate, but related, studies this year to identify a transmission solution for the RTO’s constrained interface between its North and South regions.

In the absence of a planned transmission line, Dominion presented a plan to PJM to drop 150,000 customers in Virginia in the event of facility loss.