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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.
SPP approved its sixth competitive project under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV transmission line in Oklahoma, with two more upgrades in the pipeline.
In the competition between two Western day-ahead markets — CAISO’s EDAM and SPP’s Markets+ — the two market operators have “sort of played off one another,” an industry observer said during a panel.
AEP tells financial analysts that load growth, driven by commercial customers in its service territory, presents opportunities to invest in “critically needed” infrastructure.
SPP told its state regulators and board members that it will do better after three local load sheds since March 31, affecting a combined 54,000 customers.
MISO is seeking judicial review of two FERC decisions preventing the RTO from recouping costs or revising a joint procedure with SPP over a shared North Dakota transmission line that has become congested by a new cryptocurrency mining facility.
Markets+ stakeholders will have little opportunity to ease up in coming months despite a wave of favorable developments for the market.
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 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.
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.
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.
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