SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee (MOPC) rejected a rule change that would have allowed transmission owners to collect interest in billing disputes, even if they lose.
SPP stakeholders once again took up the issue of Z2 waivers at last week's MOPC, and once again, the discussion was lively.
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee endorsed a 41% increase in a delayed 345-kV project along the Red River in southeastern Oklahoma as reasonable and reset the project’s baseline.
More than five hours of presentations and stakeholder discussions over two days did little to resolve SPP’s albatross of Z2 credits.
The SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee refused to take action on AEP and OG&E’s revision request to remove the day-ahead limited must-offer.
Recommendations to streamline SPP’s transmission planning process won unanimous approval from the Strategic Planning Committee and MOPC.
SPP’s Z2 crediting project may now stretch into 2017 after the Board of Directors sided with stakeholders and delayed a vote on waiver requests.
The SPP MOPC asked staff to re-evaluate whether two transmission projects should have their need dates accelerated given wind energy growth.
A summary of issues discussed by the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on April 12 to 13.
Only a few months away from revising its transmission planning process, SPP is continuing to work under the old ITP format.
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