Chris Hendrix, Walmart’s director of markets and compliance, talked to RTO Insider about his company recently joining SPP.

Talk of a Western RTO continued at the 11th annual gathering of the Western Power Issues Roundtable, after several shakeups in the Western Interconnection.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has kicked off an effort to develop an alternative rate structure for recovering its administrative costs.

OGE Energy said that a strong regional economy and positive regulatory developments led to an improved second quarter for the company.

FERC approved Tariff revisions that will finally allow the Southwest Power Pool to implement a resource adequacy requirement.

The SPP Board of Directors approved a Tariff change requiring non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable (DVERs).

SPP met in Colorado with Western entities that have expressed interest in its reliability coordinator services, committed to providing RC services for WECC.

Regulators from the SPP and MISO footprints are banding together to take on seams issues created by what one industry expert calls “RTO gerrymandering.”

FERC rejected NorthWestern Energy’s attempt to limit its liability for service interruptions to an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Montana.

FERC granted AEP Energy Partners’ request to transmit power between ERCOT and Mexico over existing DC tie connections.