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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.
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FERC’s approval of SPP’s Markets+ funding agreement and its recovery mechanism came as backers of the Western centralized day-ahead market were meeting with the snow-capped Rockies as a backdrop.
SPP
FERC approved SPP’s $150 million funding agreement for Markets+ and the funding mechanisms under which the RTO will finance the implementation phase of the market’s development.
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SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee has endorsed the last of 21 recommendations made by a task force that reviewed the RTO's transmission and market operations last decade.
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SPP has appointed Jim Gonzalez as its new senior director of seams and Western services, in what will be a highly visible position in the RTO as it continues to develop Markets+ ahead of its expected launch in 2027.
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SPP stakeholders approved a tariff revision that creates a one-time study outside the grid operator’s normal planning process, helping load-responsible entities meet their resource adequacy requirement.
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
FERC has accepted SPP’s proposed compliance revisions to its Markets+ tariff that clarify five minor issues.
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The Bonneville Power Administration elicited nearly 150 comments in response to the draft policy outlining its decision to join SPP’s Markets+ rather than CAISO’s Extended Day-Ahead Market.
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FERC Chair Mark Christie and Commissioner Judy Chang downplayed the current political environment’s impact on the agency, saying the commission’s role is to follow the law and ensure the fairness of procedures.
MISO, SPP
MISO and SPP staff asked for input on a joint system study in 2025 during their annual transmission issues evaluation with their Interregional Planning Stakeholder Advisory Committee, which was only too happy to comply.
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Retiring SPP CEO Barbara Sugg ascended to the top of her profession with an image of a very accomplished person confident in her abilities, despite her negative inner voice.
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