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March 14, 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.
SPP Moves Ahead with ‘Tweaked’ Panhandle Congestion Study
SPP’s on-again, off-again high-priority congestion study of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles region is on once again following approval by the Board.
SPP to Dissolve Regional Entity
SPP announced it will dissolve its Regional Entity, in part because of the expansion of its RTO footprint, which no longer aligns with the RE’s territory.
SPP, Mountain West Members Get Acquainted
SPP's Markets and Operations Policy Committee meeting in Denver drew record attendance because of the appearance of Mountain West Transmission Group.
Load Migrations Put SPP’s Focus on Retention
SPP is confronting the possibility that as much as 1,300 MW of additional load could leave its system.
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SPP Seeks Experts for Competitive Tx Panel
SPP is accepting applications from industry experts for an independent panel reviewing the RTO’s 2018 competitive transmission construction proposals.
SPP Strategic Planning Committee Briefs: July 13, 2017
The SPP Strategic Planning Committee directed RTO staff to move forward with a high-priority congestion study that earlier failed to gain traction.
SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee Briefs: July 11-12, 2017
The SPP Z2 Task Force will likely be a relic of the past, but the issues with credits and obligations for sponsored transmission upgrades aren’t going away.
Divide Evident Between SPP Tx Owners, Users
SPP transmission owners overwhelmingly endorsed voting items favorable to their companies, much to the consternation of other members.
SPP, Peak Reliability Pitch RC Services for Mountain West
SPP and Peak Reliability extolled their virtues before the Colorado PUC in a bid to provide the reliability coordination function for Mountain West.
SPP Briefs: Week of June 28
SPP stakeholders spent two hours discussing the need for a congestion study in the Texas Panhandle, only to determine that more discussion is needed.

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