Download the following PDF files to learn more about SPP:

Intro to SPP: This presentation gives an overview of SPP's history, organization, role in the industry, and services provided.

Fast Facts: Get quick facts and statistics about SPP.

Benefits of a "Transmission Superhighway": Learn about the many ways that new transmission benefits the entire SPP region.

Demographics: Get statistics about the people in the SPP footprint (age, household income, etc.).

Economies of Scale: Benefits of SPP's Current and Future Energy Markets: Learn about SPP's current EIS and transmission markets, and find out what the planned Day Ahead and Ancillary Services markets will do and the benefits they will provide.

Footprints: Describes SPP's five footprints - Regional Entity, Reserve Sharing, Reliability Coordinator, Regional Transmission Organization, and EIS Market Region.

Market Fact Sheet: Get answers to questions about SPP's wholesale energy market.

Non-Coincidental Peak Load: This page displays daily peak load.

Wind Integration: Get answers to questions about SPP's role in connecting more wind generation to the electric grid.

Quick Facts:

• SPP covers a geographic area of 370,000 square miles, and as a Regional Transmission Organization manages transmission in eight states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
  
• SPP has 56 members in the above states and Mississippi that serve over 5 million customers (some are wholesale customers). There are over 15 million people in the SPP region.                
  
• In 2009, SPP members completed 98 transmission projects totaling $259 million.
  
• 2009 transactions in SPP's wholesale energy and transmission markets totaled $1.63 billion.
  
• SPP's 63,000 megawatts of capacity resources would power over 50 million homes.
  
• SPP cost = 30¢ of $100 residential bill
  
• The 50,575 miles of transmission lines in SPP's footprint would circle the earth - almost twice!
  
• Transmission Voltage Levels: 500, 345, 230, 161, 138, 115, 69 kV
  
• Generating Plants: 847, Substations: 6,079
  
• 2009 System Peak, non-coincident: 43,703 megawatts non-coincident (August 4)
• Megawatts of generation under review: 42,772
• Megawatts of renewable generation generation under review: 37,364