Southwest Power Pool (SPP)
WECC
Utility regulators from Oregon and California discussed their proposal for a new independent RTO covering the entire West for the first time publicly.
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SPP’s REAL Team is taking up multiple resource adequacy issues as it works to ensure the RTO has enough accredited capacity to meet future demand.
MISO
MISO has shortened one of the 345-kV lines contained in its $2 billion Joint Targeted Interconnection Queue portfolio with SPP, which will lower costs.
Xcel Energy
After rehearing arguments raised by several SPP members, FERC unanimously reversed an October decision that established a process for SPP to allocate “byway” transmission projects on a case-by-case basis.
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SPP stakeholders endorsed a tariff revision request that adds a winter resource adequacy requirement for load-responsible entities bound by the grid operator’s recent planning reserve margin increase.
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The competition for organized markets in the West grew Friday as the Bonneville Power Administration launched a process to choose between day-ahead markets proposed by CAISO and SPP and regulators from five Western states urged the establishment of a new, independent RTO covering the entire West.
City of Nixa, Mo.
FERC denied a rehearing request over its February decision approving SPP’s proposed tariff revisions for GridLiance High Plains-owned facilities.
MISO and SPP
FERC approved changes to MISO and SPP’s affected system study process to allow either RTO to order upgrades of limiting elements on tie lines.
Evergy
FERC affirmed Evergy’s status as an affiliate of Bluescape Energy Partners, rebuffing rehearing requests from the Kansas City utility and the Edison Electric Institute.
Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority
FERC rejected four separate rehearing requests related to SPP’s revenue credits under Attachment Z of its tariff.
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