SPP stakeholders last week narrowly rejected a proposal that would have waived producing an economic study in 2023, a move that would help relieve staff burdened by conducting three transmission studies at the same time. Markets and Operations Policy Committee members voted down a motion to skip the economic and...

SPP staff last week unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue, a result of legacy study processes that can take as long as 485 days to complete — and longer if restudies are required. David Kelley, SPP’s director of seams and...

SPP stakeholders last week endorsed a 10-year assessment of reliability and economic transmission projects that will likely continue to struggle to stay abreast of wind energy development. "Actual wind in the ground outstrips our projections almost every time," ITC Holdings’ Alan Myers, who chairs the Economic Studies Working Group responsible...