The SPP Board of Directors accepted staff’s recommendation to budget $9.5 million to develop and stand up the Western Energy Imbalance Service market.

WAPA, Basin Electric, and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association announced they will join SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service market.

Four Colorado utilities announced they were evaluating joining either CAISO's or SPP's energy imbalance market with the help of a consulting firm.

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

CAISO is poised to take the lion’s share of the West in the competition for reliability coordinator (RC) customers, WECC revealed.

Mountain West Transmission Group said it has completed initial discussions about RTO membership with SPP’s management team and will begin public negotiations through its stakeholder process.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting in Denver drew record attendance because of the appearance of Mountain West Transmission Group.

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

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.

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