Texas PUC staff and ERCOT staff have been "living on coffee and anger" as they work together to redesign the state's deregulated market.

SPP is closing to setting a date by which interested members of its WEIS market must commit to full RTO membership.

Renewable developers said SPP's plan to resolve a four-year backlog of GI requests by 2024 sets an example for the other RTOs to follow.

SPP has hired Talina Mathews, a commissioner with the Kentucky Public Service Commission, to lead its RTO state regulatory policy efforts.

Solar has overtaken wind in the interconnection queues of MISO and SPP as declining PV costs make solar attractive even in wind belt states.

The Midwest Reliability Organization said extremely hot temperatures will continue to be an area of concern for its planning coordinators through September.

SPP has postponed all in-person stakeholder meetings until further notice, as its home state of Arkansas wrestles with a troubling uptick in COVID-19 cases.

MISO and SPP are asking for stakeholder ideas on how they can cost share joint transmission projects that allow new generator interconnections.

MISO and SPP's joint targeted interconnection queue study turned up the first transmission projects that could help generation interconnect near the seams.

SPP CEO Barbara Sugg briefed WECC’s Board of Directors last week on the RTO’s efforts in the Western Interconnection and potential benefits for stakeholders there, including full membership in SPP’s proposed RTO West. SPP operates as a reliability coordinator in parts of the West and is helping the Northwest Power Pool develop a multistate resource …

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