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December 5, 2025

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.
Colorado PUC
Colorado Commissioners Spar Over PSCo’s Markets+ Choice
Members of the Colorado PUC expressed differing opinions on whether PSCo joining Markets+ would be in the public interest.
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SPP Strategic Planning Committee Briefs: July 17, 2025
SPP's Strategic Planning Committee has unanimously endorsed staff’s comprehensive approach to accelerate transmission capability, directing them and the RTO's working groups to prioritize the development of policies for all short-, mid- and long-term initiatives.
NextEra Energy Transmission
NextEra Energizes 2nd Competitive Project in SPP
NextEra Energy Transmission completed the second of its three competitive projects in SPP’s footprint, the 92-mile, 345-kV Wolf Creek-Blackberry project in Kansas and Missouri.
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SPP MOPC Briefs: July 15-16, 2025
SPP stakeholders resoundingly rejected a proposed tariff change to integrate large loads, pushing back against what some say is a rushed process outside of the normal stakeholder structure.
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WRAP Task Force Explores Optimization Under Day-ahead Markets
A new task force will examine how the WPP’s WRAP can continue to operate efficiently under the new multimarket environment emerging in the West.
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SPP ‘Blazes Trail’ with Consolidated Planning Process
SPP stakeholders unanimously approved a tariff change that replaces current planning processes with an integrated three-year cycle composed of long-term and annual studies.
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SPP Adds OG&E’s Shuart to External Affairs Leadership
SPP has added OG&E's Emily Shuart to its staff as it bolstered its external affairs group in the face of massive industry changes.
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Calif. Pathways Bill Delayed After Orgs Withdraw Support, While Newsom Signals Backing for Effort
The author behind the bill that would allow CAISO to relinquish market governance to an independent RO has delayed a hearing after several organizations withdrew support for the proposed legislation.
SPP
SPP REAL Team Endorses Demand Response Framework
SPP’s REAL Team has endorsed RTO staff’s framework for demand response, allowing the grid operator to bring it forward to the quarterly governance meetings in July and August and to then begin drafting the tariff change.
City of Nixa
D.C. Circuit Declines Review of SPP Cost Allocation
The D.C. Circuit denied a review of a FERC decision that allowed SPP to incorporate transmission facilities into one of its pricing zones, spreading the costs to the zone’s customer base.

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