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.
Colorado Public Utilities Commission
SPP, Mountain West Resolving ‘Contentious’ Issues
The integration of the Mountain West Transmission Group into SPP is on track to meet its October 2019 consummation timeline.
SPP Stakeholders Still Struggling on BTM Reporting
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee continued to hash through the difficulties of reporting behind-the-meter load.
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SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee Briefs: Jan. 16-17, 2018
SPP’s Markets and Operations Policy Committee unanimously approved adding a major maintenance cost in mitigated start-up and no-load offers.
SPP Working to Respond to FERC’s Quick-Start Directive
SPP told members how it will respond to the FERC order that found the RTO was suppressing investment signals by not allowing quick-start resources to set LMPs.
OPPD
Commission OKs SPP Price Corrections
FERC approved the request from SPP to issue price corrections and resettlements stemming from the OPPD retirement of its Fort Calhoun nuclear plant.
ERCOT, SPP Extend Winter Peak Records
Another wave of arctic cold in the South has ERCOT and SPP revising their winter peak records.
SPP
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.
SPP
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.
NERC
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.

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