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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.
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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’s Board of Directors and Members Committee approved a 1-cent increase in the RTO’s administrative fee and its 2018 budget.
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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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 accepted SPP Tariff revisions replacing the defined terms “head-room” and “floor-room” with “instantaneous load capacity.”
FERC accepted network transmission service agreements between SPP and Kansas Municipal Energy Agency (KMEA) and Sunflower Electric Power.
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FERC issued rulings in three SPP transmission cases, mostly siding with the RTO but rejecting its proposed changes to classifying service upgrade costs.
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FERC approved SPP’s operating reserves proposal but said the RTO should respond to criticism about scarcity pricing avoidance.
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SPP’s Board of Directors approved a cleanup of Tariff language that just may have put the RTO’s troublesome Z2 process in the rearview mirror.
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SPP’s Regional State Committee will later this month begin taking a lead role in the integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group.
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