SPP staff’s recommendation that the RTO approve a 21-mile 115-kV line from Walkemeyer to North Liberal as part of a reliability solution in southwestern Kansas failed to win stakeholder endorsement.

A round-up of news from the SPP Markets & Operations Policy Committee on April 14-15, 2015.

FERC rejected LS Power’s request for rehearing on SPP Order 1000 procedures and accepted the RTO’s December compliance filing.

SPP’s next 10-year transmission plan will consider three future scenarios to assess the potential impact of EPA’s Clean Power Plan.

The SPP Market Monitor asked FERC to reject a proposal that would bar the RTO from canceling commitments of gas-fired generators if they are not needed.

SPP could comply with the EPA’s Clean Power Plan through a $45/ton carbon adder and 7.8 GW of additional generation, most of it wind, the RTO said.

Stakeholders from MISO and SPP they are developing the framework for an interstate trading platform to comply with the EPA Clean Power Plan.

FERC rejected an SPP proposal to review the information that transmission owners include in their initial revenue requirement filings after joining the RTO.

FERC last week accepted revised transmission formula rate protocols by four SPP and MISO utilities that had deficient protocols.

FERC said last week that SPP must engage in interregional coordination and cost allocation with SERTP, rejecting the RTO’s request for a limited waiver of Order 1000 requirements.