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Southwest Power Pool
SPP is a Regional Transmission Organization, mandated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure reliable supplies of power, adequate transmission infrastructure, and competitive wholesale prices of electricity. As a North American Electric Reliability Corporation Regional Entity, SPP oversees compliance enforcement and reliability standards development. SPP has members in nine states. Read more About SPP, What We Do or SPP Fast Facts.
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{posted 11/5/2009}
The SPP Transmission Atlas contains over 60 detailed maps that include transmission and generation assets, interstate highways, waterways, major urban areas, and more. The atlas includes an index with page numbers for each station and urban area in the SPP and Entergy footprints. Please visit our Request an SPP Map/Model page for detailed information about requesting your copy.
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{posted 11/4/2009}
Last week the SPP Board of Directors approved a new cost allocation methodology for new transmission in the SPP region. Also last week, FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff testified before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, stating, "A significant expansion of renewable resources in our electricity supply portfolio will require additional high-voltage transmission...It is highly unlikely that the inter-regional transmission facilities necessary to deliver the output of certain renewable resources will be constructed without additional federal planning, siting, and cost allocation authority… Legislation can help clarify the Commission's authority to allocate a project's costs reasonably among all of a project's beneficiaries. However, such legislation should avoid including unduly restrictive language on cost allocation, particularly language that would impose a requirement to calculate the precise monetary benefits expected to accrue from a new transmission facility."
According to SPP Senior Vice President of Engineering and Regulatory Policy Les Dillahunty, "SPP supports the need for federal leadership on issues of planning, siting, and paying for new transmission. SPP is working with stakeholders and regulators on important regional needs related to the integration of renewable resources, cost allocation, and transmission expansion. National direction is always important, and there are a host of pending national initiatives which, when resolved, will both clarify and impact these issues."
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{posted 10/28/2009}
Yesterday the SPP Board of Directors approved a new Integrated Transmission Planning (ITP) process that will determine what transmission is needed to maintain electric reliability and provide near- and long-term economic benefits to the SPP region. Successful implementation of the ITP will result in a list of transmission expansion projects and completion dates that facilitate the creation of a reliable, robust, flexible and cost-effective transmission network that improves access to the SPP region's divers resources including its vast potential for renewable energy. The ITP is an iterative three-year process that includes 20-Year, 10-Year, and Near-Term Assessments. Read the full release.
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{posted 10/27/2009}
The SPP Board of Directors approved a package of transmission expansion "Priority Projects" for further analysis and review by regional stakeholders. In January 2010, the following Priority Projects will be presented for approval to the Board of Directors and Regional State Committee of state regulators:
• 765 kV line in Kansas linking Spearville, a planned substation in Comanche County, Medicine Lodge, and Wichita, operated at 345 kV at an estimated cost of $518 million
• 765 kV line linking a planned substation in Comanche County, Kansas to the planned Woodward District EHV substation near Woodward, Oklahoma operated at 345 kV at an estimated cost of $135 million
• 345 kV double circuit line linking the Hitchland substation south of Guyman, Oklahoma to the planned Woodward District EHV substation near Woodward, Oklahoma at an estimated cost of $237 million
• 345 kV line from Cooper in the southeast corner of Nebraska through Maryville, Missouri to Sibley, just east of Kansas City, Missouri, at an estimated cost of $278 million
• 345 kV line from Valliant in southeast Oklahoma to Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas state line, at an estimated cost of $131 million
• 138 kV reactor at a Tulsa, Oklahoma power station at an estimated cost of $842,000
Read the full release.
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{posted 10/26/2009}
SPP is making plans to implement two new energy markets: Day Ahead and Ancillary Services. Read our new "Economies of Scale" brochure to learn more about SPP's current and future markets and the regional benefits they provide. Contact Ronda Walters for printed copies.
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Here's a quick look at SPP's upcoming events.
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