SPP awarded its first competitively bid transmission project under Order 1000 -- but it may not be built because of declining load forecasts.

FERC denied Sunflower Electric Power's request for a rehearing of a July 2014 order that rejected its bid to recover $5 million it claims it is owed for “backstopping” a power-supply arrangement.

SPP staff’s recommendation that the RTO approve a 21-mile 115-kV line from Walkemeyer to North Liberal as part of a reliability solution in southwestern Kansas failed to win stakeholder endorsement.