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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.
SPP‘s Western Energy Imbalance Service executive committee stood up the working group responsible for developing and maintaining the market’s protocols.
SPP staff shared a draft congestion study with the RTO's Seams Steering Committee on the effect of MISO’s contract path to its southern footprint.
An SPP committee charged with coordinating the RTO’s policy development and recommendations to integrate storage resources took its first steps.
FERC rejected SPP’s request to eliminate Z2 revenue credits for sponsored transmission upgrades, allowing the RTO to submit a revised proposal.
The SPP Cost Allocation Working Group told the Regional State Committee that they plan to establish a narrow byway facility cost allocation review process.
SPP promoted Lanny Nickell to chief operating officer and members elected Bronwen Bastone to the Board of Directors.
SPP staff are expected to return to the MOPC with a proposal for a “strategic survey” following numerous occurrences of conservative operations last summer.
SPP stakeholders delayed a decision over the weighting of futures and the use of economic must-run modeling in the 2021 transmission planning assessment.
Regulators in MISO and SPP states are looking into the RTOs’ inability to develop interregional projects intended to relieve congestion across seams.
State regulators from SPP and MISO continue to discuss opportunities to contribute to the RTOs’ transmission planning analysis.
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