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November 5, 2024

SPP

The Southwest Power Pool is a regional transmission organization that coordinates the reliability of the transmission system and balances electric supply and demand in all or parts of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
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SPP Board/Members Committee Briefs: Oct. 25, 2022
FERC Chair Richard Glick made his first in-person visit to SPP’s headquarters last week, joining stakeholders for their regular quarterly governance meeting.
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SPP Board Bypasses Stakeholders on PRM Obligation Exemptions
SPP’s board gave its state regulators the go-ahead to file a tariff change allowing LREs to receive exemptions for not meeting their PRM obligation.
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FERC Corrects Error on ERCOT Probability Assessment
FERC has corrected an “incorrect statement” by making a small modification to its annual Winter Energy Market and Reliability Assessment issued last week.
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SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee Briefs: Oct. 10-11, 2022
SPP staff have chosen a hybrid approach to improve its transmission and congestion-hedging markets, focusing on equitably allocating congestion rights first.
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Non-standard Loads Becoming an Issue in SPP
SPP's SPC said the RTO’s tariff is based on a wholesale/retail regulatory regime & can handle the potentially interruptible load interested in interconnection.
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SPP Posts Final Markets+ Draft Service Offering
SPP has posted its Markets+ draft service offering that lays out the RTO’s proposal to “modernize and enhance” the western grid’s operation.
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Western Markets Exploratory Group Shares Views
The Western Markets Exploratory Group made a rare public presentation at CREPC-WIRAB of its behind-the-scenes work evaluating market options for the West.
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FERC Commissioners Opine on Western RTO
Commissioners Mark Christie and James Danly addressed the pros and cons of the West’s pursuit of greater market coordination at the fall CREPC-WIRAB meeting.
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New Study: Increased Savings from SPP RTO West Expansion
Western utilities interested in SPP’s RTO West offering released a study showing the grid operator’s expansion could produce huge annual savings.
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SPP Continues its Counterflow Optimization Work
SPP is taking another crack at adding counterflow optimization to the congestion-hedging process following a late-August workshop.

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