The SPP Strategic Planning Committee endorsed the Competitive Transmission Process Task Force’s recommendations for improving the competitive solicitation process for transmission projects under FERC Order 1000.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee discussed behind-the-meter generation and the Lubbock migration to ERCOT.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee endorsed a 41% increase in a delayed 345-kV project along the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma as reasonable and reset the project’s baseline.

The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee (MOPC) rejected a rule change that would have allowed transmission owners to collect interest in billing disputes, even if they lose.

SPP stakeholders once again took up the issue of Z2 waivers at last week's MOPC, and once again, the discussion was lively.

The Southwest Power Pool wholesale electricity markets have reduced electricity costs by more than $1 billion since 2014, the RTO announced.

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.

MISO's mechanism for allocating charges under its settlement with SPP was certified by a FERC administrative law judge the same day the Market Subcommittee met.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) stakeholders have recommended the RTO’s leadership reject $114 million in remaining waiver requests for Z2 transmission upgrades.

Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.