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January 15, 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 Ponders Congestion Rights as Z2 Solution
SPP stakeholders are pondering the use of incremental long-term congestion rights to help solve some of the complexity with the RTO’s Z2 crediting process.
SPP’s M2M Payments to MISO Continued in September
The recent trend of SPP sending market-to-market payments to MISO continued in September, but that trend may reverse itself in the months to come.
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SPP RSC Approves New Member Cost Allocation Process
The SPP Regional State Committee (RSC) approved a process for reviewing new members’ effect on regional cost allocation, but not before some changes.
SPP Board Lets Action on Z2 Stand; Litigation Likely
The Southwest Power Pool Board of Directors and Members Committee decided to take no further action on the contentious Z2 crediting issue.
SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs
Southwest Power Pool CEO Nick Brown said during his president’s report that cybersecurity issues will be SPP's biggest challenge in 2017.
Co-ops, MISO, SPP Urge FERC Restraint with Nonpublic Utilities
Electric cooperatives accused FERC of overstepping its authority by opening proceedings that could force refund obligations on nonpublic utilities, while MISO and SPP asked the commission to let them work out the issue in stakeholder proceedings.
SPP MOPC Rejects Change to Transmission Billing Dispute Procedures
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee (MOPC) rejected a rule change that would have allowed transmission owners to collect interest in billing disputes, even if they lose.
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MOPC Rejects Z2 Waivers; Task Force Seeks Changes
SPP stakeholders once again took up the issue of Z2 waivers at last week's MOPC, and once again, the discussion was lively.
SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee Briefs
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee endorsed a 41% increase in a delayed 345-kV project along the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma as reasonable and reset the project’s baseline.
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SPP Moves to Head off KCPL Measure on Tx Cost Shifts
Kansas City Power & Light’s proposal for addressing SPP transmission cost shifts led to a free-wheeling discussion on transmission pricing and the unintended consequences of proposed Tariff changes at the Strategic Planning Committee meeting Thursday.

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