November 6, 2024

SPP

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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SPP Briefs: M2M Payments from MISO to SPP Eclipse $32M
SPP’s market-to-market (M2M) process with MISO again resulted in a large payment to SPP for November operations.
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Fast-Start Resource Pricing Adds to SPP’s Workload in 2018
The Dec. 21 FERC order requiring SPP to help fast-start resources set LMPs added one more to-do for the RTO in what is shaping up to be a busy 2018.
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FERC OKs Changes to SPP’s Tx Planning Process
FERC accepted Tariff revisions to streamline SPP’s Integrated Transmission Planning (ITP) process, despite opposition from wind developers.
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NERC Assigns SPP RE Registered Entities to MRO, SERC
NERC is offering the 128 Southwest Power Pool (SPP) registered entities a chance to comment after assigning them all to a new Regional Entity.
Texas PUC Challenging SPP-Mountain West Intertie Costs
Texas Public Utility Commission (PUCT) Chair DeAnn Walker briefed her fellow commissioners on matters concerning SPP, MISO and FERC.
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Overheard at the Great Plains Institute SPP Workshop
The Great Plains Institute convened state officials and other stakeholders from across the Midwest for a one-day workshop exploring trends in SPP.
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SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs: Dec. 5, 2017
SPP’s Board of Directors and Members Committee approved a 1-cent increase in the RTO’s administrative fee and its 2018 budget.
Report: Costly Coal Undermining SPP Market, Bilking Consumers
A Sierra Club report released said captive customers of Southwest Power Pool (SPP) utilities are paying for uneconomical coal plants that self-commit.
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SPP Invoices Lead to Confusion on Z2 Payments
A mismatch between posted Z2 reports and invoices sent this month forced the RTO to email members to “dispel any confusion that may have resulted.”
FERC OKs SPP’s ‘Instantaneous Load Capacity’ Term
FERC accepted SPP Tariff revisions replacing the defined terms “head-room” and “floor-room” with “instantaneous load capacity.”

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