SPP is preparing for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan by beginning outreach to state officials and planning to form a task force under its Strategic Planning Committee.
The RTO scheduled a two-hour webinar to kick off the effort on Friday, Sept. 18. Lanny Nickell, SPP’s engineering vice president and point man for CPP compliance, told the SPC during its August meeting that all 14 states in the RTO’s footprint have been invited.
While there have been no requests for SPP to develop a plan or trading rules, the RTO says a regional approach would be easier to implement.
The SPC tabled a motion to form a CPP task force and instead asked staff to work with Golden Spread Electric Cooperative’s Mike Wise, the committee chair, to draft a scope document to better understand and pursue the regional-trading issue.
Nickell said SPP will include modeling futures based on the final EPA rule in its 2017 Integrated Transmission Plan’s 10-Year Assessment to determine how it impacts the RTO’s transmission needs.
SPP’s regulatory staff is currently meeting with key state legislators, according to an update given to another task force responsible for gas-electric timeline coordination.
SPP-MISO Settlement to be Filed Oct. 9
David Kelley, SPP’s director of interregional relations, told the RTO’s Seams Steering Committee last week that SPP and MISO plan to file a settlement agreement with FERC on Oct. 9 that could bring an end to their dispute over the latter’s use of a 1,000-MW contract path between its North and South regions.
“There’s not a lot I can share publicly,” Kelley said, “but I can discuss the schedule.”
The proposed settlement also was discussed by MISO members at meetings last month. (See “Settlement with SPP over 1,000-MW Limit Will Eliminate ‘Hurdle Rate’” in Markets Committee Briefs.)
SPP RE Reliability Assessment Webinar
SPP and the SPP Regional Entity have scheduled a 30-minute webinar on the 2015 winter reliability assessment for Sept. 23. SPP RE staff will present an overview of the draft assessment and solicit feedback before it is finalized with the North American Electric Reliability Corp.
Registrants will receive the draft assessment and presentation for review.
— Tom Kleckner
