Commissioners Mark Christie and James Danly addressed the pros and cons of the West’s pursuit of greater market coordination at the fall CREPC-WIRAB meeting.

MISO and SPP’s proposed cost allocation for their queue-relieving interregional transmission planning continues to create consternation among stakeholders.

Western utilities interested in SPP’s RTO West offering released a study showing the grid operator’s expansion could produce huge annual savings.

MISO and SPP this week said they have tentatively settled on criteria and will begin developing a first set of smaller interregional transmission projects.

SPP is taking another crack at adding counterflow optimization to the congestion-hedging process following a late-August workshop.

Arkansas Commissioner Ted Thomas says his recent decision to step down from the state’s regulatory body is simply a matter of making room for his successor.

Four Arizona entities have joined seven Pacific Northwest entities to support the next phase of SPP’s Markets+ development.

Kansas regulators have awarded a CCN to NextEra Energy Transmission Southwest for the competitive project it intends to build in Kansas and Missouri.

A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas’ right-of-first-refusal law violates the dormant Commerce Clause, granting NextEra's appeal of the legislation.