Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee continued to hash through the difficulties of reporting behind-the-meter load.
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.
Texas regulators concluded two days of hearings on Lubbock Power & Light’s proposal to move 70% of its load from SPP to ERCOT.
SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee decided it will respond to FERC’s request for a definition of “resilience,” rather than turning the effort over to a task force.
SPP told members how it will respond to the FERC order that found the RTO was suppressing investment signals by not allowing quick-start resources to set LMPs.
FERC approved the request from SPP to issue price corrections and resettlements stemming from the OPPD retirement of its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant.
Another wave of arctic cold in the South has ERCOT and SPP revising their winter peak records.
With an Arctic cold front rolling through the southern part of its footprint Tuesday morning, SPP set a new winter demand peak of 42.71 GW. The previous mark of 41.01 GW — set Jan. 2 — lasted only two weeks.
SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.
Clean Line Energy Partners said that market realities led the company to sell its Oklahoma assets to NextEra Energy, but is continuing work on other projects.
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