SPP awarded its second competitive transmission project under FERC Order 1000, the Sooner-Wekiwa project, to Transource Missouri.

The SPP Regional State Committee approved the nomination of South Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner Kristie Fiegen as its next president.

SPP staff are preparing to address critical comments on the grid operator’s revised WEIS Tariff as they work to keep the project on track.

The Missouri PSC is investigating whether the state’s investor-owned utilities’ continued RTO membership “is in the ratepayers’ best interest.”

SPP stakeholders endorsed a 10-year transmission plan that will likely continue to underestimate wind energy development.

MISO and SPP state regulators appear intent on completing their work to improve their interregional coordination before 2021 arrives.

FERC reversed course and said MISO, SPP and PJM don’t have to rely on eachother’s dispatch assumptions to carry out an affected-system study.

Generation developer Competitive Power Ventures is being sold to Tel Aviv-based OPC Energy and Israeli institutional investors.

MISO postponed its attempt to develop modeling software that can accommodate different combinations of combined cycle units.

SPP considered several seams-related projects with MISO through their 2020 ITP, but declined to pursue them over differences in calculating benefits and costs.