October 7, 2024

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

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SPP Restricts Board, RSC In-person Attendance
SPP says it is limiting attendance at its scheduled October governance meetings to only roster members of the Board of Directors, Members Committee and RSC.
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SPP MOPC Approves Change Addressing Fuel Limitations
SPP stakeholders approved the ability of market participants facing fuel limitations to include opportunity costs in their mitigated offers.
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SPP Monitor: Impacts of WEIS in Year 1 ‘Limited’
SPP’s Western Energy Imbalance Service market saw “very limited growth” in its first 13 months, SPP’s MMU said in its first annual report on the market.
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SPP Board of Directors/Members Committee Briefs: July 26, 2022
SPP’s Board of Directors approved stakeholders’ recommendation to issue a notification to construct a 345-kV double-circuit transmission project in New Mexico.
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Stakeholders Troubled over MISO Response to FERC Planning NOPR
Stakeholders are concerned over the comments MISO plans to submit on FERC’s recently proposed transmission planning rule.
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FERC Proposes Allowing RTOs to Share Credit-related Info
FERC proposed allowing RTOs to share credit information about market participants, fulfilling a request the grid operators made at a 2021 technical conference.
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SPP Regional State Committee Briefs: July 25, 2022
SPP regulators have approved a recommendation for three DC ties that will connect the RTO’s Eastern and Western Interconnection footprints.
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SPP Board, Regulators Side with Staff over Reserve Margin
SPP’s Board of Directors has sided with staff in approving an increase of the RTO’s planning reserve margin to 15%, effective next year.
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Triple-digit Temps Continue to Roast Texas
Persistent triple-digit temperatures across much of Texas have forced ERCOT to issue yet another operating condition notice as it flirts with 80-GW demand.
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SPP Board, Regulators to Consider Reserve Margin Increase
SPP and its members have agreed to boost the reserve margin to 15% but remain at odds over the timing of the increase following "contentious" MOPC discussions.

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