October 9, 2024

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

SPP
MISO-SPP M2M Settlements Exceed $200M
SPP’s market-to-market settlements with MISO exceeded $20 million in October for the second time in 12 months.
SWEPCO
FERC Accepts MISO-SPP Congestion Charge Solution
FERC allowed MISO and SPP to use a predictive flow factor process to correct overlapping congestion charges between the two on pseudo-tied loads and resources.
Matthew T. Rader, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
NAESB Starts Gas-electric Coordination Project
The North American Energy Standards Board has launched a project to develop new standards governing coordination between the gas and electric industries.
ABB Hitachi
Stakeholder Soapbox: Low-cost, Reliable Power Service Depends on Large-scale Tx
Barbara Tyran, director of ACORE’s Macro Grid Initiative, discusses the issues grid operators and regulators face in ensuring cost-effective, reliable service.
Implementation Underway for NWPP’s Western RA Market
NWPP took its first steps implementing its Western Resource Adequacy Program, allowing participants to submit resource data for a “nonbinding” phase.
MISO
MISO Wraps Annual Transmission Package
MISO's Board Week touched on its 2021 Transmission Expansion Plan, long-range transmission portfolio and a joint study with SPP intended to build transmission.
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Experts Put Interregional Tx Under a Microscope at CLEANPOWER
Representatives of FERC, MISO, the Kansas Corporation Commission and Pattern Energy discussed interregional transmission planning at the CLEANPOWER conference.
WER Architects-Planners
SPP Board Reviews 2021 Performance Metrics
SPP staff and stakeholders are itching to return to in-person meetings, as evidenced by response rates to annual performance metrics.
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Colorado PUC: State Could Save up to $230M in Wholesale Market
A Colorado PUC report found that joining an organized wholesale electricity market could save the state’s utilities $50 million to $230 million annually.
Invenergy
FERC Splits on Waivers from SPP IC Process
FERC settled two disputes over waivers from SPP’s generator interconnection procedures, approving one, denying the other, with Mark Christie dissenting on both.

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