The Northwest Power Pool’s Western Resource Adequacy Program is forming stakeholder committees to nominate directors and shape program design.

SPP stakeholders endorsed the RTO’s latest transmission planning assessment but also withheld approval of a 345-kV, double-circuit project in West Texas.

SPP's new five-year strategic plan includes increasing its footprint in the Western Interconnection.

SPP again delayed in-person meetings and staff’s return to the office because of rising COVID-19 infections and flu cases.

FERC ruled in three SPP dockets involving Tenaska, NorthWestern Energy and Nebraska Public Power District and Tri-State Generation and Transmission.

SPP’s market-to-market settlements with MISO exceeded $20 million in October for the second time in 12 months.

FERC allowed MISO and SPP to use a predictive flow factor process to correct overlapping congestion charges between the two on pseudo-tied loads and resources.

The North American Energy Standards Board has launched a project to develop new standards governing coordination between the gas and electric industries.

Barbara Tyran, director of ACORE’s Macro Grid Initiative, discusses the issues grid operators and regulators face in ensuring cost-effective, reliable service.

NWPP took its first steps implementing its Western Resource Adequacy Program, allowing participants to submit resource data for a “nonbinding” phase.