FERC approved SPP’s proposal to allow generators to include major maintenance costs in their mitigated start-up and no-load offers.

FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.

The Lignite Energy Council, a coal lobbying group, reportedly plans to approach MISO and SPP in an effort to have them pay more for coal-fired generation.

FERC denied a rehearing request by SPP transmission owners of its earlier decision on the allocation of transmission costs.

SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to remove AEP’s Wind Catcher project from the 2019 ITP assessment scope.

WECC focused on the issues and challenges surrounding the balkanization of reliability coordination in the Western Interconnection at its annual meeting.

CAISO is poised to take the lion’s share of the West in the competition for reliability coordinator (RC) customers, WECC revealed.

WAPA said its Sierra Nevada region will go with CAISO for RC services, while its Rocky Mountain and Desert Southwest regions will go with SPP.

The SPP Regional Entity’s Board of Trustees officially terminated the RE’s regional delegation agreement, effective 5 p.m. CT on Aug. 31.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chair Dana Murphy came up short in her bid to become the state’s lieutenant governor.