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.
FERC accepted SPP's tariff revisions to its Western Energy Imbalance Service market that allow market holds for reliability-based concerns when requested by a balancing authority.
Tri-State asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to find it would be in the public interest for the power supplier to join SPP, saying integrating with the RTO will bring significant benefits.
SPP has dumped its “evolutionary, not revolutionary” value principle and is working to make things happen quickly in order to meet the pace of industry change.
The U.S. Department of Energy is preparing a case-by-case review of all the agency’s financial assistance awards under the Biden administration that it says could have “significant ramifications” for current and prospective recipients.
SPP and Hitachi announced a partnership to produce an integrated AI-based solution they say will reduce study-analysis times by 80% in the GI process to meet escalating demand.
Outgoing FERC Chair Mark Christie and former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter both emphasized that the West controls the future of the Western interconnection, not Washington.
The panel of SPP board members overseeing the development of Markets+has approved the governance transition plan for the construction phase of the day-ahead market.
FERC rejected a request by four Western utilities to rehear its approval of the “transmission contributors” option in the SPP Markets+ tariff but provided the utilities clarification on the boundaries of that provision.
The study, conducted by Aurora Energy Research, found EDAM could provide the Denver-based utility $11.2 million more in average annual savings from 2028 to 2040 compared with Markets+, rising to $13.2 million through 2060.
SPP is preparing participants for the next phase of Markets+ development, when stakeholders will build the day-ahead market's systems, processes and procedures.