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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.
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A new task force will examine how the WPP’s WRAP can continue to operate efficiently under the new multimarket environment emerging in the West.
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SPP stakeholders unanimously approved a tariff change that replaces current planning processes with an integrated three-year cycle composed of long-term and annual studies.
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SPP has added OG&E's Emily Shuart to its staff as it bolstered its external affairs group in the face of massive industry changes.
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The author behind the bill that would allow CAISO to relinquish market governance to an independent RO has delayed a hearing after several organizations withdrew support for the proposed legislation.
SPP
SPP’s REAL Team has endorsed RTO staff’s framework for demand response, allowing the grid operator to bring it forward to the quarterly governance meetings in July and August and to then begin drafting the tariff change.
City of Nixa
The D.C. Circuit denied a review of a FERC decision that allowed SPP to incorporate transmission facilities into one of its pricing zones, spreading the costs to the zone’s customer base.
The Bonneville Power Administration
A group of environmental organizations sued the Bonneville Power Administration in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals over the agency’s decision to join SPP’s Markets+ instead of CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
SPP
SPP stakeholders rejected an urgent proposed tariff revision that would help the grid operator connect generation more quickly.
Invenergy
Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.
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Although one of the aims of day-ahead markets in the West is to fix a fragmented transmission landscape, some islanded entities will have a tough time navigating seams issues likely to arise as markets take shape, analysts at Aurora Energy Research said during a webinar.
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