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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’s Board of Directors was forced to table the appeal of a rejected revision request, cutting short the discussion when they realized the supporting documentation was not included in the background materials.
The SPP RSC (Regional State Committee) approved the scope for a study of cost allocation in wind-rich areas, a problem that grows along with the RTO’s wind generation.
After 18 years of providing a steady presence on the SPP Board of Directors, Jim Eckelberger and Harry Skilton have stepped aside to fill emeritus roles.
SPP CEO Nick Brown said the grid operator remains committed to making their membership proposal to Mountain West Transmission Group work, despite Xcel Energy’s surprise decision to pull out of the group and its pending integration into the RTO.
Xcel Energy, the largest member of the Mountain West Transmission Group (MWTG), said that it is withdrawing from the group and its efforts to join SPP.
SPP officials were questioned as to why the Holistic Integrated Tariff Team (HITT) was created and approved behind closed doors.
The SPP MOPC endorsed a rule change to address member concerns that the ITP Manual doesn’t appropriately capture purchase power agreement pricing.
The SPP MOPC failed to endorse a revision that would have required non-dispatchable variable energy resources (NDVERs) to register as dispatchable.
A group of SPP members have asked the Board of Directors to reconsider its decision to move forward with the Mountain West Transmission Group integration until “there is more consensus.“
FERC approved SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions to eliminate a gaming opportunity related to regulation deployment adjustments.
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