FERC issued rulings in three SPP transmission cases, mostly siding with the RTO but rejecting its proposed changes to classifying service upgrade costs.

FERC approved SPP’s operating reserves proposal but said the RTO should respond to criticism about scarcity pricing avoidance.

CenterPoint Energy executives said the company is in “late-stage discussions” over its Enable Midstream Partners gas-gathering and processing joint venture.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved a cleanup of Tariff language that just may have put the RTO’s troublesome Z2 process in the rearview mirror.

SPP’s Regional State Committee will later this month begin taking a lead role in the integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group.

American Electric Power said the mildest weather conditions since 1992 led its third-quarter sales to fall 12.8% from a year ago, down to $4.1 billion.

The Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) called for Sempra Energy to prove it’s financially fit to own Oncor, the state's largest utility.

The Organization of MISO States failed to reach consensus on MISO’s cost allocation plans for smaller transmission projects that produce broader benefits.

SPP and Mountain West Transmission Group representatives worked hard to allay concerns of Colorado regulators who fear they could lose some authority.

SPP said it will join the ISO/RTO Council’s filing against the Department of Energy’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to support struggling coal and nuclear.