SPP officials and stakeholders the RTO's plethora of wind energy, the search for a new Market Monitoring Unit director and Mountain West Transmission Group.

SPP stakeholders endorsed $201.5 million in transmission projects despite objections from several entities.

SPP stakeholders agreed to amend a two-year-old policy paper and clarify when FERC approval would be needed for cost allocation towards some seams projects.

The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) says it has successfully implemented system changes required by FERC Order 809, improving gas-electric coordination.

The recent trend of SPP sending market-to-market payments to MISO continued in September, but that trend may reverse itself in the months to come.

The Southwest Power Pool Exit Study Task Force, formed to provide technical support and advice regarding the Lubbock Power & Light move to ERCOT, conducted its first meeting last week.

A task force developing cost allocation rules for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff.

SPP’s engineering staff updated members on the RTO’s current regional and interregional transmission studies during an engineering summit.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee refused to take action on AEP and OG&E’s revision request to remove the day-ahead limited must-offer.

MISO and the SPP Seams Steering Committee have ended months of uncertainty by agreeing to a second joint system study.