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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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Colorado regulators have approved Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s plan to add 1,657 MW of new resources from 2026 to 2031, despite objections about the inclusion of a new natural gas plant.
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SPP’s Board of Directors has approved a tariff change establishing an integrated, three-year transmission planning cycle that represents a “first-in-the-country” mechanism.
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SPP says its longest-tenured employee, Senior Vice President of Operations Bruce Rew, will retire in December and be replaced by C.J. Brown.
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The Colorado PUC voted to approve Public Service Company of Colorado's plans to join SPP’s Markets+, with commissioners split on whether the move is a step toward or away from full RTO participation.
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SPP notified stakeholders that the one-time expedited resource adequacy study process will open its window for fast-track review requests will open in September 2025.
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SPP is celebrating several recent FERC orders that have strengthened its resource adequacy framework that it says will secure a “reliable energy future” for its region.
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Members of the Colorado PUC expressed differing opinions on whether PSCo joining Markets+ would be in the public interest.
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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.
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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 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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