SPP stakeholders are pondering the use of incremental long-term congestion rights to help solve some of the complexity with the RTO’s Z2 crediting process.

The Southwest Power Pool Board of Directors and Members Committee decided to take no further action on the contentious Z2 crediting issue.

SPP stakeholders once again took up the issue of Z2 waivers at last week's MOPC, and once again, the discussion was lively.

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) stakeholders have recommended the RTO’s leadership reject $114 million in remaining waiver requests for Z2 transmission upgrades.

An SPP task force hopes to recommend one of six options for handling $114 million in upgrades under Tariff Attachment Z2 to the Markets and Operations Policy Committee next month.

The two newest SPP stakeholder groups are taking a look at the future, while also stepping almost a decade into the past to resolve the sticky issue of Tariff Attachment Z2.

The SPP Board of Directors agreed to give transmission customers an extra 50 months to pay their Z2 bills while also creating a new task force to address complaints of members.

SPP’s Z2 crediting project may now stretch into 2017 after the Board of Directors sided with stakeholders and delayed a vote on waiver requests.

SPP will hold a two-day review session for the Attachment Z2 credit-settlement system June 28-29 at its Little Rock headquarters.

A summary of issues discussed by the SPP Markets and Operations Policy Committee on April 12 to 13.