FERC Chairman Richard Glick says "the time is right for the states, the region’s utilities and other key stakeholders" to form one or more Western RTOs.

A spate of transmission projects is in the works to move renewables from remote regions of the West to urban load centers.

In what may be a nod to its aspirations for regional markets in the Western Interconnection, SPP said Thursday it has hired Kara Fornstrom, chair of the Wyoming Public Service Commission, as its director of state regulatory policy. Fornstrom will be responsible for leading SPP’s state regulatory policy efforts and...