SPP continues to add fresh blood to its leadership ranks, announcing that two new officers will join its senior leadership team from within the RTO’s ranks.

The SPP Cost Allocation Working Group told the Regional State Committee that they plan to establish a narrow byway facility cost allocation review process.

Transmission owners defended PJM’s, ISO-NE’s and SPP’s immediate-need reliability projects while states said they are frustrating FERC Order 1000’s intent.

FERC partially accepted SPP’s compliance filing to Orders 845 and 845-A, directing the RTO to submit further changes.

SPP promoted Lanny Nickell to chief operating officer and members elected Bronwen Bastone to the Board of Directors.

SPP and its stakeholders have begun to grapple with the issue of how to use battery storage, but must first determine who will guide the process.

The Texas Public Utility Commission approved modifications to proposed transmission lines necessary to integrate Lubbock Power & Light load into ERCOT.

SPP staff are expected to return to the MOPC with a proposal for a “strategic survey” following numerous occurrences of conservative operations last summer.

SPP stakeholders delayed a decision over the weighting of futures and the use of economic must-run modeling in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.

Regulators in MISO and SPP states are looking into the RTOs’ inability to develop interregional projects intended to relieve congestion across seams.