SPP directors, members, staff and other stakeholders took time out from the normal board week activities to honor two retiring directors.

FERC allowed GridLiance High Plains to begin rate recovery Nov. 1 for its facilities in the Oklahoma Panhandle but set its annual transmission revenue requirement subject to refund.

SPP’s Regional State Committee elected its slate of officers for next year and paid tribute to departing members.

MISO and SPP could jointly create a smaller category of interregional transmission projects as early as next year to address costly congestion.

SPP staff are dialing back an ambitious proposal to beef up the analysis behind generator retirements in the face of stakeholder pushback.

SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.

SPP Board of Directors Chair Larry Altenbaumer unveiled a proposal to reduce the number of face-to-face meetings and add more executive sessions.

SPP stakeholders directed the Seams Steering Committee to stop work on a proposed a waiver from charges for unreserved transmission use across the seams.

SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.

The creation of Evergy has increased market concentration in the new company’s reserve zone, SPP’s Marketing Monitoring Unit said.