By midyear, SPP will be without five key figures who have helped expand the grid operator’s footprint into 17 states and implement a day-ahead market.

FERC rejected a request by SPP and its load-serving entities to rehear its order that eliminated the RTO’s membership exit fee for non-transmission owners.

Xcel Energy, Black Hills Colorado Electric, Colorado Springs Utilities and Platte River Power Authority announced they will join CAISO's EIM.

Texas' PUC denied El Paso’s request for an extension of settlement negotiations, maintaining the agreement deadline in the acquisition of El Paso Electric.

SPP's Monitor released a paper detailing a study of generator self-commitments in the market, yielding evidence they exert downward pressure on prices.

Storage industry and assorted regulators, financiers, and utility and RTO representatives gathered for the GreenTech Media Energy Storage Summit 2019.

Two environmental groups that say regulated utilities’ practice of self-committing coal plants is costing ratepayers have a point, RTO officials said.

State regulators working to improve MISO-SPP interregional planning processes and seams issues drew interested onlookers to their latest committee meeting.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee met at NextEra Energy’s corporate headquarters in Juno Beach, Fla., to discuss the RTO's new strategic plan.

SPP COO Carl Monroe, one of the key players behind the grid operator’s growing footprint, has said he will retire in early 2020.