State regulators working to improve MISO-SPP interregional planning processes and seams issues drew interested onlookers to their latest committee meeting.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee met at NextEra Energy’s corporate headquarters in Juno Beach, Fla., to discuss the RTO's new strategic plan.

SPP COO Carl Monroe, one of the key players behind the grid operator’s growing footprint, has said he will retire in early 2020.

Louisiana regulator Foster Campbell broadened his complaint over RTO expenses with a letter challenging SPP's and MISO's spending.

SPP told the Seams Steering Committee they have begun preliminary interregional transmission planning discussions with Canadian electric utility SaskPower.

Oklahoma Gas & Electric beat analysts’ third-quarter earnings expectations with a net income of about $251 million ($1.25/share).

SPP’s energy prices and average hourly load this summer were below 2018 levels, while generator outages and congestion both increased, the RTO’s MMU said.

The SPP Board of Directors approved a 9.1% increase in the RTO's administrative fee and the ITP 10-year assessment, while honoring retiring directors.

A battle over a seat on SPP’s Members Committee exposed a divide between traditional utilities and the renewable companies fueling growth of generation.

SPP’s Regional State Committee endorsed the elimination of revenue credits for sponsored transmission upgrades and the transmission planning assessment.