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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.
The SPP Z2 Task Force will likely be a relic of the past, but the issues with credits and obligations for sponsored transmission upgrades aren’t going away.
SPP transmission owners overwhelmingly endorsed voting items favorable to their companies, much to the consternation of other members.
SPP and Peak Reliability extolled their virtues before the Colorado PUC in a bid to provide the reliability coordination function for Mountain West.
SPP stakeholders spent two hours discussing the need for a congestion study in the Texas Panhandle, only to determine that more discussion is needed.
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Having agreed on a first potential interregional transmission project with MISO, SPP is moving the 115-kV line in South Dakota through regional review.
SPP members are advancing at least two alternative solutions to address the RTO’s complicated crediting system for transmission upgrades.
MISO and SPP have agreed upon a memorandum of understanding that will enable them to emulate multiple MISO-PJM interregional plans.
SPP’s Strategic Planning Committee ended discussion on cost shifts within existing pricing zones, agreeing unanimously to let the MOPC take up the issue.
SPP stakeholders approved a revision request that allows the RTO to lower its planning reserve margin as it waits on a quorum-less FERC.
In producing its looking-forward report for SPP, Bates White Economic Consulting says low natural gas prices will continue if technology further improves.
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