FERC again decided that neither MISO nor Montana-Dakota Utilities are entitled to recourse over a MISO-SPP flowgate in North Dakota strained by a cryptocurrency mining facility.

FERC accepted SPP’s proposed tariff revisions to incorporate a mark-to-auction collateral requirement for its transmission congestion rights market but did not terminate a show-cause proceeding.

FERC accepted SPP's proposed tariff revisions that will incorporate seven Western Interconnection entities as transmission-owning members of the RTO.

FERC is expected to rule on SPP’s proposed tariff revisions adding a winter season resource adequacy requirement and several other issues related to the grid operator.

Incoming SPP CEO Lanny Nickell told attendees at the Energy Synergy Summit that infrastructure is the key to managing the energy transition.

The Bonneville Power Administration announced it intends to join SPP’s Markets+, saying in its draft policy that the day-ahead market “is the best long-term strategic direction for Bonneville, its customers and the Northwest.”

Proponents of SPP’s Markets+ argued in their last “issue alert” that the day-ahead market option provides a robust footprint with “exceptional generation and load diversity” across the region while also claiming recent warnings about its seam with CAISO’s EDAM are overblown.

Former BPA Administrators collaborated on a public letter distributed in the Pacific Northwest about the “tremendous risk being created” in the region by workforce reductions at the federal agency.

SPP promoted Felek Abbas to senior vice president and chief technology and security officer, combining those duties with his current duties as CSO.