The Western Electricity Coordinating Council continued to deal with issues related to this year’s reliability coordinator transition at its board of directors meeting.

The NERC Board of Trustees authorized management to terminate the agreement between the organization and the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council.

SPP continued its effort to modernize its cost-recovery processes last week, agreeing to replace its broad single rate schedule with four targeted ones.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

CAISO said it had finalized agreements to provide reliability coordinator services with 32 transmission operators and balancing authorities in the West.

SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.

CAISO will tackle its new role as reliability coordinator in 2019, and California lawmakers will struggle with preventing wildfires sparked by power lines.

In many ways, PJM's 2018 was much like years before, with capacity and energy market rules under constant redesign. Some stakeholders have grown weary of the churn.

CAISO’s 2019 revenue requirement will be less than this year’s, despite hiring and costs associated with its planned new role as reliability coordinator for most of the West.

SPP's Western Reliability Executive Committee pushed back against suggestions that the RTO coordinate its go-live date with that of CAISO.