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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 stakeholders directed the Seams Steering Committee to stop work on a proposed a waiver from charges for unreserved transmission use across the seams.
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SPP members approved one of two Generator Interconnection Improvement Task Force recommendations but took no action on the second.
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SPP Board of Directors Chair Larry Altenbaumer unveiled a proposal to reduce the number of face-to-face meetings and add more executive sessions.
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SPP’s Market and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved staff recommendations to revise the SPP-MISO Coordinated System Plan.
Turbine Generator Maintenance
FERC approved SPP’s proposal to allow generators to include major maintenance costs in their mitigated start-up and no-load offers.
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FERC approved the first SPP seams project when it accepted Tariff revisions incorporating a cost-sharing and usage agreement with AECI.
FERC denied a rehearing request by SPP transmission owners of its earlier decision on the allocation of transmission costs.
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SPP stakeholders approved staff’s recommendation to remove AEP’s Wind Catcher project from the 2019 ITP assessment scope.
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The SPP Regional Entity’s Board of Trustees officially terminated the RE’s regional delegation agreement, effective 5 p.m. CT on Aug. 31.
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Stakeholders remain skeptical of a MISO-SPP plan to eliminate the joint model in favor of using their respective regional models for interregional projects.
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