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December 25, 2025

Southwest Power Pool (SPP)

SPP’s Western EIS Market Poised to Challenge EIM
SPP has raised the stakes in what could shape up to be a long-term competition to win over the Western electricity market one service at a time.
FERC Orders Fast-start Rules for SPP
FERC directed SPP to make Tariff changes to allow fast-start resources to set clearing prices, saying its current rules are not just and reasonable.
SPP Reaps $1.65M in April M2M Payments
SPP collected $1.65 million in M2M payments from MISO in April, pushing the total to $62.5 million since the two RTOs began the process in March 2015.
SPP Market Performed Well in Winter, MMU says
The SPP Market Monitoring Unit's quarterly State of the Market report for the winter includes a discussion of several weather events.
UPDATED: RSC, OMS Approve Monitors’ Seams Study
The SPP Regional State Committee approved a recommendation to engage the RTO’s MMU and the MISO Monitor to conduct a joint analysis on seams issues.
SPP Tx Planners at Forefront of New Challenges
Attendees of SPP's Engineering Planning Summit discussed how to plan transmission to account for the RTO's overabundance of renewable resources.
Out of the Game, Skelly Still High on Wind Energy
Clean Line Energy Partners has sold off its projects, but former CEO Michael Skelly is optimistic someone will bring the midcontinent's wind energy east.
SPP Western Reliability Briefs: Week of May 13, 2019
Southwest Power Pool staff shared a proposed “modification oversight process” with its Western reliability coordination customers.
DC Circuit Again Rejects MRES Appeal
The D.C. Circuit rejected Missouri River Energy Services' rehearing requests following a determination that SPP could charge for certain transmission fees.
FERC Upholds Electric Storage Order
FERC upheld its landmark electric storage order, prompting a dissent from Commissioner Bernard McNamee over its refusal to allow states to opt out.

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