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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.
The SPP Seams Steering Committee discussed last month's level 1 energy emergency alert and, the RTO's 3rd unsuccessful attempt to partner with MISO.
SPP and MISO will hold a conference call to discuss their interregional process and joint projects — of which there are currently none.
SPP’s Regional State Committee endorsed a report on wind-rich areas and several recommendations related to the effort to improve its planning processes.
SPP CEO Nick Brown told the board and Members Committee that a recent FERC-NERC report confirmed the RTO’s position on MISO’s use of its system.
SPP’s Board of Directors approved a package of recommendations intended to expand renewable energy, boost reliability and improve transmission planning.
SPP asked MOPC members to provide their input on a proposal to consolidate the 16 stakeholder groups that report to the committee.
MISO and SPP regulators are considering an analysis of the interregional planning process to supplement the seams coordination analysis already underway.
SPP ended eight days of conservative operations last week, just in time to meet near-record demand in its 14-state footprint.
SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee debated the merits of deterministic versus probabilistic planning approaches during a review of transmission investment.
The Organization of MISO States issued a set of principles intended to guide the RTO’s approach to long-term transmission planning.
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