SPP staff are dialing back an ambitious proposal to beef up the analysis behind generator retirements in the face of stakeholder pushback.

SERC Reliability Corp. on Monday announced Jason Blake, vice president and general counsel of ReliabilityFirst, as its new CEO, effective Nov. 15.

SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.

SPP Board of Directors Chair Larry Altenbaumer unveiled a proposal to reduce the number of face-to-face meetings and add more executive sessions.

SPP stakeholders directed the Seams Steering Committee to stop work on a proposed a waiver from charges for unreserved transmission use across the seams.

SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.

The creation of Evergy has increased market concentration in the new company’s reserve zone, SPP’s Marketing Monitoring Unit said.

FERC approved SPP’s proposal to allow generators to include major maintenance costs in their mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

The Lignite Energy Council, a coal lobbying group, reportedly plans to approach MISO and SPP in an effort to have them pay more for coal-fired generation.