SPP CEO Barbara Sugg assured stakeholders the RTO is taking careful steps to reopen while the pandemic still rages, making clear it will be a slow process.

FERC rejected generator interconnection agreements with four wind farms filed by SPP, finding that the RTO had not shown them to be just and reasonable.

SPP’s effort to stand up the Western Energy Imbalance Service market is on budget and on schedule, RTO staff told the Western Markets Executive Committee.

SPP's MOPC endorsed a revision request that would eliminate Z2 revenue credits for sponsored transmission upgrades despite concerns of a regulatory defeat.

SPP Board Chair Larry Altenbaumer asked the Strategic Planning Committee for an education session on congestion hedging following stakeholder disagreement.

SPP stakeholders approved the initial set of protocols that will guide the RTO’s Western Energy Imbalance Service market in the Western Interconnection.

FERC resolved a dispute over overlapping congestion charges on the MISO-SPP seam when it accepted a settlement SWEPCO and the city of Prescott, Ark.

FERC reiterated that non-transmission owning members of SPP are still subject to a $50,000 deposit for if they withdraw from the RTO.

FERC approved SPP’s revisions to its joint operating agreement with MISO that improve pseudo-tie coordination requirements between the RTOs.

FERC accepted Tri-State's petition that recognizes the cooperative became jurisdictional to the commission when it added its first non-utility member.