FERC told Congress it is ready to act on distributed energy resources (DER), assuring House members they will not encroach on state jurisdiction.

FERC denied a challenge to its 2017 order allowing SPP to change its regional cost allocation review.

SPP officials were questioned as to why the Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) was created and approved behind closed doors.

The SPP MOPC endorsed a rule change to address member concerns that the ITP Manual doesn’t appropriately capture purchase power agreement pricing.

The SPP MOPC failed to endorse a revision that would have required non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable.

Industry experts talked about the trends dictating new energy infrastructure at a Midwest Energy Policy Series panel hosted by the Missouri Energy Initiative.

A group of SPP members have asked the Board of Directors to reconsider its decision to move forward with the Mountain West Transmission Group integration until “there is more consensus.“

MISO Chairman Michael Curran last week denied an RTO Insider story quoting him as saying that the RTO should “burn down” the 3,000-MW limit on flows between its North and South regions if necessary to prevent load shedding.

FERC approved SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions to eliminate a gaming opportunity related to regulation deployment adjustments.

SPP and AECI stakeholders approved a scope for a joint study to determine the existence of any mutually beneficial transmission projects.