SPP stakeholders last week approved staff’s recommendation to withdraw a competitive transmission project that was opposed by the incumbent transmission owner, ending three months of ambiguity. Staff said during the Board of Directors/Members Committee meeting April 27 that after re-evaluating the Butler-Tioga project, intended to replace aging 138-kV facilities in...

SPP has launched a comprehensive review of its response to the recent severe winter storm that swept through its footprint, leading to the first rolling blackouts in the grid operator’s 80-year history. "You will hear me use the term ‘unprecedented’ a lot today," COO Lanny Nickell told the RTO’s Board...

SPP last week approved a new 138-kV transmission line to replace an aging line in Kansas, acknowledging that the action would immediately result in a restudy request by its owner, Evergy. Denise Buffington, Evergy | SPP The Kansas City-based utility said the project would collide with regional needs and the...