The Texas Public Utility Commission asked for more information on eight small municipal utilities’ appeal of ERCOT’s definition of transmission operator.

SPP’s Regional State Committee endorsed a report on wind-rich areas and several recommendations related to the effort to improve its planning processes.

SPP CEO Nick Brown told the board and Members Committee that a recent FERC-NERC report confirmed the RTO’s position on MISO’s use of its system.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved a package of recommendations intended to expand renewable energy, boost reliability and improve transmission planning.

SPP asked MOPC members to provide their input on a proposal to consolidate the 16 stakeholder groups that report to the committee.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team shared with stakeholders a draft report of high-level recommendations addressing the footprint’s many challenges.

SPP General Counsel Paul Suskie laid out the implications of FERC’s reversal of a waiver it had previously issued to the RTO on Tariff Attachment Z2.

SPP stakeholders approved changes to the RTO’s generator interconnection process to simplify what had become a burdensome process involving repetitive data.

SPP will this year begin providing reliability coordinator services to more than a dozen entities in the Western Interconnection.

SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team wrapped up the educational portion of its work and will now begin refining high-level recommendations to the board.