SPP and Peak Reliability extolled their virtues before the Colorado PUC in a bid to provide the reliability coordination function for Mountain West.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee discussed the logistics of adding Mountain West Transmission Group and MMU recommendations.

SPP and the Mountain West Transmission Group pitched the benefits of RTO membership in an open forum before Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission.

SPP's footprint may be expanding with the potential addition of the Mountain West Transmission Group, which would help the RTO offload excess wind energy.

The first National Electric Transmission Infrastructure Summit heard concerns over how to pay for grid modernization and FERC's lack of a quorum.

SPP officials and stakeholders the RTO's plethora of wind energy, the search for a new Market Monitoring Unit director and Mountain West Transmission Group.

Mountain West Transmission Group has said it will enter discussions with SPP to explore the possibility of joining the RTO.

A parallel effort to create an organized electricity market (RTO) is taking shape in the inland West even as CAISO attempts to expand.