The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee approved the Integrated Transmission Planning process’s 2018 near-term assessment portfolio.

SPP’s Board of Directors was forced to table the appeal of a rejected revision request, cutting short the discussion when they realized the supporting documentation was not included in the background materials.

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.

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.“

The integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group into SPP is on track to meet its October 2019 consummation timeline.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee continued to hash through the difficulties of reporting behind-the-meter load.

SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

SPP stakeholders narrowly rejected a Tariff change that would have established a 1-MW threshold for reporting behind-the-meter network load.