Colorado electric co-op rolls out ‘community battery’ program SoCore Energy, a Chicago based subsidiary of California utility holding company Edison International, sees electric cooperatives as growing market for energy storage. Co-ops typically have large territories and relatively few customers, so traditional transmission and distribution projects can be very costly with only a small number of … Continue reading #Colorado electric co-op rolls out ‘community battery’ program→
FERC Conditionally Accepts SPP Tariff Revisions to Implement Contingency and Regulation Reserve Demand Curves On November 9, 2017, FERC issued an order conditionally accepting proposed revisions to Attachment AE of the Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”) Open Access Transmission Tariff (“Tariff”). SPP’s proposed Tariff revisions modify SPP’s so-called “scarcity pricing” methodology in response to FERC … Continue reading FERC Conditionally Accepts SPP Tariff Revisions to Implement Contingency and Regulation Reserve Demand Curves→
Politics, economics favor SPP’s westward expansion: analyst The Southwest Power Pool, which has for years served stakeholders far from the US’ Southwest, is likely to expand its market footprint even further afield, as utilities in the Rockies and elsewhere in the West ponder shifting political, reliability and economic realities. “We believe the benefits of membership … Continue reading Politics, economics favor SPP ‘s westward expansion: analyst→
FERC Directs SPP to Change Eligibility for Certain Transmission Rights On October 19, 2017, FERC ordered Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”) to revise its Open Access Transmission Tariff (“OATT”) to provide that network customers with service subject to redispatch can only obtain Auction Revenue Rights (“ARRs”) and Long-Term Congestion Rights (“LTCRs”) for those times and … Continue reading FERC Directs SPP to Change Eligibility for Certain Transmission Rights→
CES Market IQ Team Provides Insights on SPP Mountain West Integration PHILADELPHIA, PA–(Marketwired – October 04, 2017) – Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) recently announced the intention of the Mountain West Transmission Group (Mountain West), a coalition of 10 electricity providers in the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region, to pursue public negotiations on the matter of … Continue reading #CES Market IQ Team Provides Insights on SPP Mountain West Integration→
FERC rejects Southwest Power Pool resource adequacy proposal FERC regulators point out that SPP’s market for bilateral capacity is relatively net-long compared to its proposed 12% planning reserve margin — so at least in the near term, there should be plenty of sellers to meet demand and the planning margin. But the commission expressed concern … Continue reading FERC rejects Southwest Power Pool resource adequacy proposal→
Southwest Power Pool dissolving enforcement entity to focus on RTO Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is eliminating its role as a regional enforcer of grid rules to focus purely as a regional transmission organization involved in reliability coordination, market operations and planning. Bowing to a nationwide movement among U.S. grid organizations, SPP is dissolving its SPP … Continue reading Southwest Power Pool dissolving enforcement entity to focus on RTO→
R-Project requested by Southwest Power Pool I have heard from several people in the sandhills region who are concerned about the R-Project. Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) needs to construct a 345,000-volt transmission line from NPPD’s Gerald Gentleman Station near Sutherland to a new substation to be sited adjacent to NPPD’s existing substation east of … Continue reading R-Project requested by Southwest Power Pool→
