Renewable developers said SPP's plan to resolve a four-year backlog of GI requests by 2024 sets an example for the other RTOs to follow.

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...