FERC has approved MISO's and SPP’s plan to assign a new prioritization of projects in their respective interconnection queues for study purposes.

FERC ordered show-cause proceedings on the transmission formula rate protocols of four utilities in SPP.

FERC permitted GridLiance High Plains to offload its controversial Nixa, Mo., transmission assets to the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission.

MISO and SPP announced that they plan to ditch their current affected systems study process for more interregional transmission studies like their JTIQ study.

FERC commissioners expressed alarm over forecasts of potential supply shortfalls this summer in the West, ERCOT, MISO and SPP.

Drought, wildfires, plant retirements and transmission outages have elevated the risk of supply shortfalls in the West, Texas, MISO and SPP, NERC said.

MISO and SPP’s inaugural Common Seams Initiatives meeting discussed transmission reconfigurations and the search for interregional transmission projects.

SPP staff are conducting internal discussions on how they manage MISO constraints in the day-ahead market as part of the RTOs’ market-to-market process.

SPP expects to have enough generating capacity to meet regional demand this summer, but it has already issued the season's first resource advisory.

SPP’s plan to develop a market to compete with CAISO's Western EIM got a boost from utilities and energy customers in the Pacific Northwest.