The Texas PUC consented to a list of 36 issues to be contested related to SWEPCO’s costs associated with parent AEP’s massive Wind Catcher project.

Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath cut attendance to the Gulf Coast Power Association’s fourth annual SPP Regional Conference by nearly 20%.

Great Plains Energy has pulled back from its attempted acquisition of Westar Energy, recasting the move as a “merger of equals.”

Westar will pay a penalty of $180K for submitting inaccurate mitigated energy offer curves to SPP under a settlement with FERC’s Office of Enforcement.

NERC staff told SPP’s registered entities they have until Oct. 31 to submit their transfer requests to another Regional Entity.

FERC approved a settlement agreement granting five municipalities belonging to Missouri River Energy Services a 9.6% base return on equity.

The U.S. Energy Department’s study acknowledges its limited authority over wholesale markets, leaving it to FERC and RTOs to act on its recommendations.

U.S. grid operators, the ISOs and RTOs across the country, were well prepared for the first continent-wide total solar eclipse in nearly a century.

The Texas PUC (PUCT) has scheduled a second staff-led workshop for Oct. 13 on price formation issues in the ERCOT market.

FERC granted Grand River Dam Authority’s request for a permanent 2-foot increase in the reservoir level of the 105-MW Pensacola Project.