November 23, 2024

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

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SPP Monitor Collins Joins ERCOT as VP of Market Ops
ERCOT hired Keith Collins, who directs SPP’s Market Monitoring Unit, as its new vice president of market operations to replace Kenan Ögelman.
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SPP’s REAL Team Moves Package of Policies
SPP’s resource adequacy stakeholder group has moved several policies that indicate the team’s work is “coming home” after months of presentations and discussions.
WER Architects-Planners
FERC to SPP: Show More Work on PRM Determination
FERC found SPP’s tariff revisions laying out how it determines its planning reserve margin methodology only partly met the commission’s order on rehearing and directed an additional compliance filing.
Basin Electric
SPP Shares Concerns over EPA’s GHG Rule
SPP told members the EPA’s final rule curbing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants could hamper the nation’s ability to provide reliable service during the “swift” transition from fossil fuels to renewables.
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SPP Board of Directors/MC Briefs: May 7, 2024
SPP CEO Barbara Sugg warned the RTO’s board and stakeholders that the grid operator faces new and stronger headwinds, even as it met its corporate goals’ first-quarter milestones.
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SPP Regional State Committee Briefs: May 6, 2024
FERC Commissioner Mark Christie, who still refers to himself as a state regulator after 17 years on the Virginia commission, offered words of praise and encouragement for SPP’s state regulators.
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SPP’s Stakeholder Process Attracts Markets+ Participants
SPP says its stakeholder-driven culture is key to Markets+' success in the Western Interconnection.
Invenergy
FERC Approves Changes to SPP’s GI Process
FERC accepted SPP tariff revisions designed to increase study deposits for generator interconnection requests, add a nonrefundable application fee and clarify the process of evaluating modifications to requests.
SPP
SPP Promotes Kelley, Cathey to VP Posts
SPP filled two vice presidential vacancies, naming David Kelley as its CFO and finance vice president and promoting Casey Cathey to Kelley’s former engineering VP position.
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SPP, Members Close in on Fuel Policy, Base PRM
SPP and its stakeholders appear to be nearing consensus on establishing separate planning reserve margins for the summer and winter seasons and setting up a fuel assurance mechanism.

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