October 7, 2024

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

Mortensen Wind Energy Group
FERC Denies Rehearing of Tenaska Curtailment Complaint
FERC denied Tenaska’s rehearing request over alleged curtailment of its Clear Creek Wind Farm, maintaining the company did not provide sufficient evidence.
General Electric
FERC Rejects SPP Self-funding Proposal for TOs
FERC has rejected SPP tariff revisions that would help transmission owners continue to self-fund network upgrades to interconnect generators.
SPP
SPP MOPC Briefs: April 10-11, 2023
SPP staff and stakeholders spent much of last week’s virtual Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting discussing resource adequacy.
Grid Strategies
Grid Strategies Reports Spiking Congestion Costs
The cost of transmission congestion doubled in organized electricity markets between 2020 and 2021, rising by billions of dollars, according to Grid Strategies.
SPP
SPP: 31 Entities Join in Markets+ Development
Thirty-one utilities, public interest groups and other entities have joined SPP's effort to develop and launch its Markets+ offering.
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SPP Unveils Markets+ Governance Structure
SPP has rolled out the governance structure that will oversee the first developmental phase of Markets+, its day-ahead and real-time market in the West.
City of Lubbock
Texas PUC Order Clears LP&L’s Path to ERCOT, Retail Choice
Texas regulators have approved a settlement that clears the way for Lubbock Power & Light to migrate from SPP into ERCOT and begin offering retail choice.
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GCPA Speakers Embrace MISO Sloped Demand Curve
The likelihood of a sloped demand curve in MISO’s capacity market earned seals of approval from panelists at GCPA’s 9th Annual MISO/SPP Regional Conference.
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Overheard at the 9th GCPA MISO-SPP Conference
Panelists at the GCPA conference linked long queue waits, major transmission expansion, reliability worries and the inexorable takeover of renewable energy.
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DOE Clears JTIQ Projects to Proceed with Funding App
MISO and SPP said DOE has signaled that grid operators and their state commissions can move forward with a full application for funding from the GRIP program.

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