Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
Southwest Power Pool (SPP) stakeholders have recommended the RTO’s leadership reject $114 million in remaining waiver requests for Z2 transmission upgrades.
Transmission industry owners, operators, generators, regulators, financiers and other key players from the Western U.S. attended Infocast’s 8th annual Transmission Summit West.
SPP and ERCOT developers have worked together to produce version 2.0 of the Macomber Map, a visualization tool for control rooms.
The PUCT accepted a proposal from ERCOT and SPP staff on coordinating their separate studies on Lubbock Power & Light’s planned move.
FERC rejected proposed SPP Tariff revisions, saying they would unfairly favor network transmission customers over point-to-point customers in how the RTO awards congestion rights.
SPP says improved wind forecasting and coordination with gas pipelines have the RTO well prepared for the coming winter.
An SPP task force hopes to recommend one of six options for handling $114 million in upgrades under Tariff Attachment Z2 to the Markets and Operations Policy Committee next month.
CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad said he will recommend the commission abandon its proposal to allow private rights of action against RTOs and ISOs.
MISO and SPP are moving ahead on a joint transmission study focusing on seven projects, staff told stakeholders at a Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee meeting.
A task force developing cost allocation rules for Southwest Power Pool (SPP) seams projects identified outside the FERC Order 1000 interregional process agreed to take another crack at crafting language more agreeable to stakeholders and staff.
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