The Texas PUC quickly approved a second draft order of Southwestern Public Service’s (SPS) request for a certificate of convenience and necessary for its 478-MW wind farm.

Kansas and Missouri regulators approved Great Plains Energy’s merger with Westar Energy, the final hurdles in a stock-for-stock merger of equals.

FERC approved SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions to incorporate Tri-State Generation as a new transmission owner in an existing pricing zone.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) has begun to decide on how to "eat the elephant," in the words of group leader Tom Kent.

SPP’s winter real-time prices increased 4.6% from the previous year, according to the Market Monitoring Unit’s latest quarterly State of the Market report.

FERC should let RTO stakeholder processes work and not issue broad and costly new mandates on grid resilience, commenters told the commission.

CenterPoint reported first-quarter (Q1 2018) earnings of $241 million ($0.55/share), compared with $160 million ($0.37/share) for the same period in 2017.

FERC approved the dissolution of the SPP Regional Entity and the transfer of its members to the Midwest Reliability Organization and SERC Reliability Corp.

SPP and MISO staff are evaluating feedback gathered from their members on how best to improve their interregional planning process.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved Southwestern Public Service Company’s (SPS) request to build a wind farm in Texas, clearing the way for a project that will provide renewable energy and economic benefits to SPS customers in the Lone Star State and New Mexico.