Arizona has joined Colorado, Nevada and Oregon in exploring membership in an RTO in the Western Interconnection.

Major transmission construction will help the grid tolerate increasingly severe weather, panelists said at a recent ACORE webinar.

Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.

SPP is closing to setting a date by which interested members of its WEIS market must commit to full RTO membership.

Renewable developers said SPP's plan to resolve a four-year backlog of GI requests by 2024 sets an example for the other RTOs to follow.

SPP has hired Talina Mathews, a commissioner with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, to lead its RTO state regulatory policy efforts.

Solar has overtaken wind in the interconnection queues of MISO and SPP as declining PV costs make solar attractive even in wind belt states.

The Midwest Reliability Organization said extremely hot temperatures will continue to be an area of concern for its planning coordinators through September.

SPP has postponed all in-person stakeholder meetings until further notice, as its home state of Arkansas wrestles with a troubling uptick in COVID-19 cases.

MISO and SPP are asking for stakeholder ideas on how they can cost share joint transmission projects that allow new generator interconnections.