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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.
SPP stakeholders endorsed a tariff revision request that adds a winter resource adequacy requirement for load-responsible entities bound by the grid operator’s recent planning reserve margin increase.
The competition for organized markets in the West grew Friday as the Bonneville Power Administration launched a process to choose between day-ahead markets proposed by CAISO and SPP and regulators from five Western states urged the establishment of a new, independent RTO covering the entire West.
FERC denied a rehearing request over its February decision approving SPP’s proposed tariff revisions for GridLiance High Plains-owned facilities.
FERC approved changes to MISO and SPP’s affected system study process to allow either RTO to order upgrades of limiting elements on tie lines.
FERC affirmed Evergy’s status as an affiliate of Bluescape Energy Partners, rebuffing rehearing requests from the Kansas City utility and the Edison Electric Institute.
Americans for a Clean Energy Grid gave MISO and CAISO top grades for regional transmission planning and development; PJM and ISO-NE scored poorly.
Stakeholders asked for cost containment measures for MISO's and SPP’s Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue portfolio after the RTOs said the cost estimate for the projects nearly doubled.
ERCOT is setting records for peak demand in what has been described as "hellacious" temperatures, "even by Texas standards."
The cost estimate for MISO’s and SPP’s package of 345-kV lines meant to facilitate the interconnection of generation at the seams has nearly doubled, the RTOs have said in the past week.
Western state regulators unanimously approved a revised charter for the Markets+ State Committee allowing additional states and Canadian provinces to join.
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