The SPP Strategic Planning Committee directed RTO staff to move forward with a high-priority congestion study that earlier failed to gain traction.

SPP transmission owners overwhelmingly endorsed voting items favorable to their companies, much to the consternation of other members.

SPP and Peak Reliability extolled their virtues before the Colorado PUC in a bid to provide the reliability coordination function for Mountain West.

SPP stakeholders spent two hours discussing the need for a congestion study in the Texas Panhandle, only to determine that more discussion is needed.

The Mid-America Regulatory Conference drew an above-capacity assembly of public utility regulators, legal counsel and other industry insiders.

Having agreed on a first potential interregional transmission project with MISO, SPP is moving the 115-kV line in South Dakota through regional review.

Planning reserve margins are expected to be adequate for a hotter-than-normal summer, FERC said in its annual summer reliability report.

SPP members are advancing at least two alternative solutions to address the RTO’s complicated crediting system for transmission upgrades.

MISO and SPP have agreed upon a memorandum of understanding that will enable them to emulate multiple MISO-PJM interregional plans.

SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee ended discussion on cost shifts within existing pricing zones, agreeing unanimously to let the MOPC take up the issue.