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January 13, 2025

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 Registered Entities Face Oct. 31 Deadline for New RE Choice
NERC staff told SPP’s registered entities they have until Oct. 31 to submit their transfer requests to another Regional Entity.
Westar Agrees to Penalty for Violating SPP’s Tariff
Westar will pay a penalty of $180K for submitting inaccurate mitigated energy offer curves to SPP under a settlement with FERC’s Office of Enforcement.
Grid Operators Manage Solar Eclipse
U.S. grid operators, the ISOs and RTOs across the country, were well prepared for the first continent-wide total solar eclipse in nearly a century.
SPP Glum as MISO Axes Last Interregional Project
The MISO rejection of the last possible interregional transmission project resulting from a coordinated study with SPP surprised the latter RTO.
MISO Axes Remaining SPP Interregional Project
MISO is yanking support on the project resulting from a study with SPP, nixing its chances this year to collaborate on an interregional project.
Solar Eclipse to have Minimal Impact on SPP
Next week’s total solar eclipse will not disrupt SPP operations despite 100% obscuration levels in parts of its 14-state footprint.
SPP
SPP Briefs: Week of Aug. 15, 2017
NERC will host a webinar Aug. 25 to help the current members of SPP’s Regional Entity transition to new compliance authorities.
SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs: July 25, 2017
The SPP Board of Directors and Members Committee approved MOPC's decision to let the Z2, Export Pricing and Gas-Electric Coordination task forces expire.
SPP Moves Ahead with ‘Tweaked’ Panhandle Congestion Study
SPP’s on-again, off-again high-priority congestion study of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles region is on once again following approval by the Board.
SPP Board Rejects Changes to Tx Zonal-Placement Rules
SPP made another effort to revise its transmission-zonal placement process, but once again came up short when the board sustained its earlier rejection.

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