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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 has denied a solar developer's waiver request for a 24-month extension of its commercial operation deadline for a planned facility in northwestern Louisiana.
Xcel Energy
Xcel CEO Bob Frenzel tried to reassure the investment community that the company is better prepared for a trade war and President Trump's tariffs during a first-quarter earnings call.
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SPP staff have opened a discussion with stakeholders into affordability and the grid operator’s proposed region-wide approach to improve decision-making and keep affordability as a key focus.
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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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