SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.

The creation of Evergy has increased market concentration in the new company’s reserve zone, SPP’s Marketing Monitoring Unit said.

FERC approved SPP’s proposal to allow generators to include major maintenance costs in their mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

The Lignite Energy Council, a coal lobbying group, reportedly plans to approach MISO and SPP in an effort to have them pay more for coal-fired generation.

FERC denied a rehearing request by SPP transmission owners of its earlier decision on the allocation of transmission costs.

SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to remove AEP’s Wind Catcher project from the 2019 ITP assessment scope.

WECC focused on the issues and challenges surrounding the balkanization of reliability coordination in the Western Interconnection at its annual meeting.

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

WAPA said its Sierra Nevada region will go with CAISO for RC services, while its Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest regions will go with SPP.