SPP’s Holistic Integrated Tariff Team shared with stakeholders a draft report of high-level recommendations addressing the footprint’s many challenges.

SPP is stepping up its bid to offer market services in the Western Interconnection, with interested participants approaching the RTO for more details.

SPP General Counsel Paul Suskie laid out the implications of FERC’s reversal of a waiver it had previously issued to the RTO on Tariff Attachment Z2.

The Texas PUC held off on giving its final blessing to $1.37 billion worth of transactions involving Oncor, Sharyland Utilities and Sempra Energy.

FERC ordered SPP to eliminate its membership exit fee for non-transmission owners, granting a complaint by wind developers.

FERC issued deficiency letters to all six jurisdictional RTOs and ISOs over their proposed energy storage rules, pressing for definitions, tariff citations and other details.

The SPP-MISO Joint Planning Committee has voted to begin a new coordinated system plan this year, SPP staff told the RTO’s Seams Steering Committee.

SPP has made its long-held interest in the West official by “calling on interested utilities and other customers” to help build a real-time market “that will meet the electricity needs of the Western Interconnection.”

The Midwest Reliability Organization Board of Directors reviewed the transition of former SPP Regional Entity members to MRO.

SPP said it is confident it will meet its first major target in providing reliability coordination services to 12% of the Western Interconnection’s load.