Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
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FERC approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s request to update a program designed to allow its member utilities more flexibility in how they procure power.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association
Tri-State G&T is seeking FERC’s approval for a new tariff designed to manage the heavy volume of data center load expected to materialize in its member utilities’ service territories over the next decade.
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Colorado regulators have approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s plan to add 1,657 MW of new resources from 2026 to 2031, despite objections about the inclusion of a new natural gas plant.
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Tri-State asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to find it would be in the public interest for the power supplier to join SPP, saying integrating with the RTO would bring significant benefits.
Markets+ Joint Authors using CAISO data
CAISO will be inherently compromised in its role as an operator of a deeper Western market because of its conflicting responsibilities as BA within that market, a group of entities that support SPP’s Markets+ argue in their latest “issue alert.”
The White House
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced more than $3 billion in funds to support clean electrification at seven rural electric cooperatives from South Carolina to Colorado.
Energy Strategies
Responding to an appellate court’s concerns about free ridership, FERC reversed a decision that allowed the WestConnect transmission planning region to include a category of participants not subject to binding cost allocation.
Camano Island Chamber of Commerce
Markets+ proponents argue that the SPP framework allows more flexibility for integrating greenhouse gas emission reduction programs across various states than CAISO’s EDAM.
The Brattle Group
Proponents of SPP’s Markets+ contend in their latest “issue alert” that the framework provides a much more equitable solution to tackling market seams than under CAISO’s EDAM.
Tri-State G&T
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced more than $7.3 billion in financing for 16 rural cooperatives through its New ERA program.
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