SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee last week approved draft mission, vision and value-proposition statements, a step in the development of a new strategic plan that has been a year in the making.
The new mission statement adds “responsibly” and “economically” to the one it has had for 35 years. It reads, “Working together to responsibly and economically keep the lights on today and in the future.”
SPP Chairman Larry Altenbaumer said the previous mission statement had “stood the test of time,” but time continues to move on.
The vision statement calls for the RTO to lead the industry “to a brighter future while delivering the best energy value.”
SPP’s value proposition has also been updated. It calls for the grid operator to:
- deliver superior services,
- drive value beyond reliability,
- build and maintain trusted relationships,
- achieve collaboratively and engage passionately, and
- embrace and promote diversity.
Pending the board of directors’ approval next week, the value proposition would replace the more familiar “relationship-based, member-driven” organization that was “evolutionary, not revolutionary,” considered “reliability and economics [to be] inseparable” and valued diverse perspectives.
The SPC last year engaged Strategic Offsites, a management consulting firm, to help the committee draft a new strategic plan. The strategy will be refined in the coming months before being shared publicly before the October governance meetings.
Return to Office
SPP CEO Barbara Sugg told the committee that staff will be returning to the office on a limited and voluntary basis, beginning May 10 if local COVID-19 infection rates don’t worsen. The grid operator’s leadership will determine whether to allow more volunteers to return to the office following the first phase.
Sugg said she hoped that SPP could have a limited number of in-person attendees for its July governance meetings, but she advised members not to make travel plans yet.
