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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.
The SPP Board of Directors formally recognized the MOPC’s revamped structure by approving the revised scopes for the committee’s various subgroups.
SPP staff unveiled a proposed mitigation plan to reduce the four-year backlog in the RTO’s generation interconnection queue.
SPP’s Corporate Governance Committee approved nominations for several open positions on stakeholder groups to go before the Board of Directors.
SPP staff said that stakeholders’ overall satisfaction with the RTO’s services and performance rose during 2020, even as survey responses dropped.
SPP’s Board of Directors approved 2021 operating & capital budgets that bend to the realities of COVID-19 and its potential economic impacts.
The SPP Regional State Committee approved the nomination of South Dakota Public Utilities Commissioner Kristie Fiegen as its next president.
SPP stakeholders endorsed a 10-year transmission plan that will likely continue to underestimate wind energy development.
SPP considered several seams-related projects with MISO through their 2020 ITP, but declined to pursue them over differences in calculating benefits and costs.
SPP’s board and Members Committee met outside of their normal quarterly schedule to consider a number of pressing issues.
The SPP Strategic Planning Committee will see if it can come up with a solution on how to modify the RTO’s congestion-hedging practices.
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