SPP’s on-again, off-again high-priority congestion study of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles region is on once again following approval by the Board.

The SPP Regional State Committee unanimously agreed to leave the aggregate study’s safe harbor cost limit unchanged at $180,000/MW.

SPP made another effort to revise its transmission-zonal placement process, but once again came up short when the board sustained its earlier rejection.

American Electric Power (AEP) plans to build a 2,000-MW wind farm and accompanying high-voltage, interstate transmission line.

RTO officials acknowledged their challenges but asked Congress not to depart from 20 years of supporting wholesale markets.

SPP announced it will dissolve its Regional Entity, in part because of the expansion of its RTO footprint, which no longer aligns with the RE’s territory.

SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting in Denver drew record attendance because of the appearance of Mountain West Transmission Group.

SPP is confronting the possibility that as much as 1,300 MW of additional load could leave its system.

SPP is accepting applications from industry experts for an independent panel reviewing the RTO’s 2018 competitive transmission construction proposals.

The SPP Z2 Task Force will likely be a relic of the past, but the issues with credits and obligations for sponsored transmission upgrades aren’t going away.