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February 4, 2026

SPP

The Southwest Power Pool is a regional transmission organization that coordinates the reliability of the transmission system and balances electric supply and demand in all or parts of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming.
Pattern Energy
Western Market Seams Complicate Data Center, Clean Energy Investments, Panelists Say
As the West appears to move toward two separate day-ahead markets, data center developers like Google and clean energy companies are investing with the intent to mitigate seams and ensure operational consistency, panelists at an Advanced Energy United webinar said.
Entergy
ERAS Tour: Hi, It’s Me, I’m the Planning Problem
The new ERAS processes in MISO and SPP allow certain power plants to effectively jump the interconnection line, skipping ahead of hundreds of other projects already waiting their turn, writes Southern Renewable Energy Association Executive Director Simon Mahan.
Ace Glass
FERC Dismisses Rehearing Ask for SPP’s ERAS Process
FERC rejected a rehearing request of its order approving SPP’s proposed one-time accelerated study of shovel-ready interconnection requests, sustaining its original 2025 decision.
JIRSA Hedrick
Colo. PUC Sticks with Approval of Markets+ for PSCo
Colorado regulators have declined to reconsider their decision finding that it would be in the public interest for Public Service Company of Colorado to join SPP’s Markets+.
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SPP’s MOPC Adds Conditional IC Process for Large Loads
SPP stakeholders have overwhelmingly endorsed a conditional interconnection process for large loads that will be paired with two other FERC-approved processes.
Amazon
FERC Approves SPP Large Load Interconnection Process
FERC approved SPP tariff additions that deploy novel study processes to quickly review requests for “high-impact” large loads seeking to interconnect to its system.
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SPP: Ex-Idaho Commish to Manage Regulatory Policy in West
SPP has hired former Idaho commissioner Kristine Raper as its senior director of state regulatory policy for the West.
Black Hills Energy
Black Hills Colorado Seeks Approval to Join Markets+
Black Hills Colorado Electric has filed an application with Colorado regulators to join SPP's Markets+, saying it has no choice because it is embedded in a balancing authority that will be a Markets+ participant.
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SPP Works to Augment Western Energy Transfers
SPP says it is pursuing inter-market optimization of energy transfers between its two Western Interconnection markets, mirroring a process it has developed in its current RTO footprint.
ITC Holdings
FERC Approves SPP’s Changes to Transmission Cost Allocation
FERC accepted SPP's tariff revisions that establish subregions for the cost allocation of future byway projects under its highway/byway methodology.

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