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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 Board of Directors approved a more than 8% reduction in the RTO’s administrative fee for 2019, although the fee is projected to rise again in 2020.
MISO, SPP and their stakeholders have been flummoxed in recent years by market coordination. At the NARUC annual meetinig, the regulators stepped in.
Two members of the SPP Regional State Committee (RSC), commissioners Randy Christmann of North Dakota and Kristie Fiegen of South Dakota, won re-election.
SPP directors, members, staff and other stakeholders took time out from the normal board week activities to honor two retiring directors.
SPP’s Regional State Committee elected its slate of officers for next year and paid tribute to departing members.
MISO and SPP could jointly create a smaller category of interregional transmission projects as early as next year to address costly congestion.
SPP staff are dialing back an ambitious proposal to beef up the analysis behind generator retirements in the face of stakeholder pushback.
SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.
SPP stakeholders directed the Seams Steering Committee to stop work on a proposed a waiver from charges for unreserved transmission use across the seams.
SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.
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