Tom Kleckner

SPP staff and stakeholders are moving quickly to respond to two energy emergency alerts and nearly a third in July.

The Texas Public Utility Commission has scheduled a special open meeting Aug. 14 to discuss 765-kV transmission lines and data centers.

SPP staff said they expect a decision within the next two months from BPA on whether it will follow through on joining Markets+.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request by SPP utilities, transmission owners and a state regulator representing affected ratepayers to review a FERC decision shifting some transmission costs from a local zone across the RTO’s broader region

SPP’s Board of Directors has approved a high-priority study of increasing transfer capability that could save millions of dollars annually.

ERCOT says it will need to file good-cause exceptions with the PUC to respond to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s request.

MISO and SPP staffs have given stakeholders until Sept. 4 to provide feedback on their “near-final” 2024-2025 Coordinated System Plan’s Core and Core+ 500-kV portfolios.

ERCOT has set a target to complete Gov. Greg Abbott’s request to verify and audit data centers and crypto miners seeking to connect.

FERC has approved an SPP tariff revision to use economic topology reconfigurations as system conditions allow.

SPP stakeholders have endorsed a priority tariff change to address tight capacity margins in the RTO’s new Western balancing authority area.