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.

Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.

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

SPP will be a key player in the Western Interconnection, having agreed to administer a tariff that mitigates congestion via controllable devices.

The number of reliability coordinators in the Western Interconnection should come into focus on Sept. 4, WECC CEO Frye told the NERC Board of Trustees.

Chris Hendrix, Walmart’s director of markets and compliance, talked to RTO Insider about his company recently joining SPP.

Talk of a Western RTO continued at the 11th annual gathering of the Western Power Issues Roundtable, after several shakeups in the Western Interconnection.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) has kicked off an effort to develop an alternative rate structure for recovering its administrative costs.

OGE Energy said that a strong regional economy and positive regulatory developments led to an improved second quarter for the company.