Transmission owners defended PJM’s, ISO-NE’s and SPP’s immediate-need reliability projects while states said they are frustrating FERC Order 1000’s intent.

FERC partially accepted SPP’s compliance filing to Orders 845 and 845-A, directing the RTO to submit further changes.

SPP promoted Lanny Nickell to chief operating officer and members elected Bronwen Bastone to the Board of Directors.

SPP and its stakeholders have begun to grapple with the issue of how to use battery storage, but must first determine who will guide the process.

SPP staff are expected to return to the MOPC with a proposal for a “strategic survey” following numerous occurrences of conservative operations last summer.

SPP stakeholders delayed a decision over the weighting of futures and the use of economic must-run modeling in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.

Regulators in MISO and SPP states are looking into the RTOs’ inability to develop interregional projects intended to relieve congestion across seams.

SPP’s board selected Barbara Sugg, the RTO's SVP of information technology and chief security officer, to replace the retiring Nick Brown as CEO.

SPP produced more than 18 GW of wind energy for the first time in history, less than four months after breaking the 17-GW barrier.

State regulators from SPP and MISO continue to discuss opportunities to contribute to the RTOs’ transmission planning analysis.