SPP Markets+
The Public Power Council has asked the Bonneville Power Administration to choose SPP’s Markets+ when the agency issues its day-ahead market “leaning” in April.
Potential participants in SPP’s Markets+ day-ahead offering have endorsed another batch of tariff revisions in preparation for a March filing at FERC.
Western state regulators approved SPP Markets+ tariff language designed to address a “gap” in the accuracy of information to be shared with the market monitor under FERC’s duty of candor requirements.
CAISO notched another victory in the competition to bring organized markets to the West when the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s oversight board authorized the utility to prepare to join EDAM.
The Bonneville Power Administration plans to issue a draft decision on its day-ahead market participation in August, followed by a final decision in November.
Despite the recent release of results from a study on the two competing day-ahead markets in the West, two New Mexico utilities said they need to conduct more analysis before they make a choice.
The study finds dividing CAISO’s EDAM from SPP’s Markets+ would create seams that pose a different set of problems than challenges seen at the boundaries of full RTOs in other parts of the U.S.
Stakeholders have discussed the likelihood that there may be two day-ahead markets in the West, CAISO’s Extended Day-ahead Market and SPP’s Markets+ and/or RTO West.
The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission will dive into a report on the financial implications of a Western day-ahead electricity market.
SPP chalked up numerous successes during 2023 without the effects of a global pandemic or severe winter storms.
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