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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 enforcement and development of reliability standards. SPP has members in nine states. Read more About SPP, What We Do or SPP Fast Facts.
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{7/28/2010}
 The Board of Directors approved the 2010 Strategic Plan, which was created by the Strategic Planning Committee with member input. Three foundational strategies and associated initiatives were developed to leverage SPP's capabilities and operational processes: Build a Robust Transmission System, Develop Efficient Market Processes, and Create Member Value.
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{7/20/2010}
SPP is the winner of the 2010 THV Summer Cereal Drive, which collected food and monetary donations for the Arkansas Foodbank Network. Of over 100 Arkansas businesses, SPP employees made the largest donation of more than 14,000 boxes of cereal. The Arkansas Foodbank Network is one of many charitable organizations supported by SPP and its staff, including Heart of Arkansas United Way, Youth Home, Our House, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, and the American Red Cross of Greater Arkansas.
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{7/15/2010}
FERC approved SPP's Integrated Transmission Planning process (ITP), which was approved by the SPP Board of Directors in October 2009. "The ITP will assess the SPP region's transmission needs in the long-and near-term to create a cost-effective, flexible, and robust transmission network. More transmission means better access to our region's diverse generation resources," said SPP Senior Vice President of Engineering and Regulatory Policy Les Dillahunty. "Along with the recently-approved Highway/Byway cost allocation methodology, the ITP promotes transmission investment that will meet reliability, economic, and public policy needs."
According to FERC Chairman Wellinghoff, "SPP management and its Members have developed a proactive approach to planning…It is also a flexible approach that allows SPP and its stakeholders to regularly assess whether that process is achieving its objectives and to adjust as the needs of the system change...other regions may want to follow its lead." Read the FERC filing and FERC news release.
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{6/17/2010}
FERC approved a new "Highway/Byway" method of sharing costs for new electric transmission in the SPP region. This approach, which assigns costs of high-voltage transmission regionally and lower-voltage locally, will help SPP and its members build a stronger transmission grid that will benefit the entire region.
"The SPP region is evolving from a utility-by-utility focus on 'keeping the lights on' at the local level to a region-wide focus on building a robust transmission system," said SPP President and CEO Nick Brown. "Sharing costs and benefits of more transmission highways and byways will increase our ability to deliver lower-cost power to customers, allow us to make the most efficient use of the region's diverse generating resources, and help us meet state and federal policy goals such as increased use of renewable energy. The electric grid is in use every second of every day, so the economics of transmission aren't just long-term but instantaneous. A robust grid optimizes economics and improves electric reliability." Read the full news release, SPP's FERC filing, or the FERC Order.
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{4/27/2010}
The SPP Board of Directors and Members Committee approved for construction a group of "priority" high voltage electric transmission projects estimated to bring benefits of at least $3.7 billion to the SPP region over 40 years. The projects will improve the regional electric grid by reducing congestion on the power lines, better integrating SPP's east and west regions, improving SPP members' ability to deliver power to customers, and facilitating the addition of new renewable and non-renewable generation to the electric grid. SPP will issue notices to construct these projects pending successful implementation of its proposed Highway/Byway cost sharing proposal. Read the full release.
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