FERC approved SPP’s affected-system order compliance filing and the RTO's proposal to revise its fast-start pricing practices.

The SPP Strategic Planning Committee will see if it can come up with a solution on how to modify the RTO’s congestion-hedging practices.

SPP stakeholders once again took a crack to resolve a weighty issue in determining how futures will be considered in the RTO’s 2021 transmission plan study.

SPP’s Board of Directors approved the first two revision requests stemming from the Holistic Integrated Tariff Team’s work.

SPP Board Chair Larry Altenbaumer asked the Strategic Planning Committee for an education session on congestion hedging following stakeholder disagreement.

FERC approved the request from SPP to issue price corrections and resettlements stemming from the OPPD retirement of its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant.

The Southwest Power Pool Z2 Task Force does not appear close to a solution for replacing its bedeviling crediting system for transmission upgrades.

Stakeholders working on the SPP Z2 crediting process met here last week to learn about how potential solutions might affect the RTO’s other functions.

The SPP MOPC asked staff to re-evaluate whether two transmission projects should have their need dates accelerated given wind energy growth.

FERC found adjusting the ARR allocation rules “are a necessary step” to correct the TCR underfunding, but it set the amount available in  the allocation process at 60%.