MISO and SPP this week said they have tentatively settled on criteria and will begin developing a first set of smaller interregional transmission projects.

SPP is taking another crack at adding counterflow optimization to the congestion-hedging process following a late-August workshop.

Kansas regulators have awarded a CCN to NextEra Energy Transmission Southwest for the competitive project it intends to build in Kansas and Missouri.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas’ right-of-first-refusal law violates the dormant Commerce Clause, granting NextEra's appeal of the legislation.

Seven Western entities have now expressed support for participating in the next phase of SPP's market development in the Western Interconnection.

FERC ruled for SPP in its dispute with Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc., over emergency energy transactions during the February 2021 winter storm.

Colorado utility Platte River Power Authority is the latest Western utility to express intent to evaluate participation in SPP's RTO West.

The Western Power Pool approved the tariff for its Western Resource Adequacy Program, readying the first-of-its-kind program for review by FERC.

MISO and SPP have laid out a percentage-based cost allocation for their $1-billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue transmission study.

A working group inventorying rate pancaking issues on the MISO-SPP seams have developed a strawman with four recommendations to improve transmission service.