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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 has increased its membership roster to 95 with the addition of Southern Power, the wholesale arm of utility giant Southern Company.
The SPP Transmission and Economic Studies working groups met jointly April 3 to vote on staff’s re-evaluation of the 90-mile Potter-Tolk transmission line.
SPP and the Mountain West Transmission Group pitched the benefits of RTO membership in an open forum before Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission.
SPP staff have begun working on final report of the Export Pricing Task Force for delivery in July of this year.
Preliminary results of the MISO and SPP '16 coordinated system study are in, and the RTOs say one project has potential, but it fails MISO’s cost threshold.
The odds of SPP and MISO conducting a second joint study dropped as the RTOs’ reviews are not lining up. Plus the Z2 Task Force is narrowing alternatives.
SPS and SPP have asked the PUC of Texas (PUCT) to rule on whether Texas law includes a right of first refusal that overrides FERC Order 1000.
After SPP set the wind penetration record for North American RTOs, recent studies found that it has the potential to serve 75% of its load with wind.
At 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning, SPP’s footprint generated 11,419 MW of wind energy at the same time its load was 21,919 MW.
The SPP Seams Steering Committee welcomed two new members, while the RTO set another record for wind generation.
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