FERC approved the request from SPP to issue price corrections and resettlements stemming from the OPPD retirement of its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant.

The Southwest Power Pool Z2 Task Force does not appear close to a solution for replacing its bedeviling crediting system for transmission upgrades.

Stakeholders working on the SPP Z2 crediting process met here last week to learn about how potential solutions might affect the RTO’s other functions.

The SPP MOPC asked staff to re-evaluate whether two transmission projects should have their need dates accelerated given wind energy growth.

FERC found adjusting the ARR allocation rules “are a necessary step” to correct the TCR underfunding, but it set the amount available in  the allocation process at 60%.

The Integrated Marketplace’s first 12 months of operations provided the highlights for SPP's 2014 State of the Market report.

A round-up of news from the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on July 14 and 15.