NERC's Standards Committee elected new leadership and approved its 2020-2022 Standards Development Plan at a meeting last week.

MISO’s Independent Market Monitor has a different opinion of the RTO’s summer supply picture three weeks into the season.

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

The SPP Market Monitoring Unit (MMU) reported that energy prices averaged about $23/MWh in the spring, despite higher loads.

SPP staff told stakeholders that the RTO will not conduct a joint transmission planning study with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. this year.

SPP and AECI stakeholders approved a scope for a joint study to determine the existence of any mutually beneficial transmission projects.

SPP has scheduled an executive session of its board and Members Committee to discuss admitting Mountain West Transmission Group members.

SPP set several new records for wind generation, lending further credence to its claims that it can handle wind-penetration levels as high as 75%.

SPP stakeholders narrowly rejected a Tariff change that would have established a 1-MW threshold for reporting behind-the-meter network load.

FERC rejected SPP’s proposed cost allocation for its seams project with Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.