Southwest Power Pool

Seventeen comment windows close this week, and the first of them closes today. A new Show Cause Order on Transmission Service to Large Load arrived with comments open through September 1.

The through line: seventeen windows

This is a week for filing, not for reading ahead. Seventeen comment windows close between today and next Monday, five of them on named initiatives and twelve on routine dockets. At the same time, 32 items arrived in the last seven days, among them a Show Cause Order on Transmission Service to Large Load taking comments through Tuesday, September 1, and a Regulatory Agenda published in the Federal Register.

Closing this week

Today, Monday, August 17: VRL Ramp Rates closes. If you have something to say on it, say it today.

Friday, August 21: two windows close, CPP ICS Facility Analysis/ Study timeline and Affected System notification and NERC's 2023-09 Risk Management for Third-Party Cloud Services.

Monday, August 24: two more, the Storage Reliability and Flexibility Initiative and BP 7700 RFP Criteria Points Weighting. Both opened only this past week, so the windows are short.

Twelve routine docket filings also close this week. Wednesday, August 19 takes ER26-3306-000 and ER26-3307-000, both 205(d) rate filings. Thursday, August 20 has ER26-3332-000, a Tariff Clean-Up Filing. Friday, August 21 is the crowded day: ER26-2720-001, a Tariff Amendment on the 1166R48 OMPA NITSA NOA Deferral; ER26-3348-000, a 205(d) filing from The Empire District Electric Company and Southwest Power Pool, Inc.; and six 205(d) rate filings on The Energy Authority PTP Agreements, ER26-3367-000, ER26-3368-000, ER26-3370-000, ER26-3371-000, ER26-3372-000, and ER26-3374-000. The routine list runs out on Monday, August 24 with ER26-2638-001, an amended Tariff Amendment with revisions to adjust RUC Make Whole.

What moved

Seven comment windows closed in the past week. Tuesday, August 11 took five at once: Interchange Transactions Clarification and Enhancement, Uninstructed Load Deviation, Enhance Forecast Submission, BP 1700 Profiling Transmission Service, and Price Adaptive Load Service. Submission Date Alignment followed on Wednesday, August 12, and Business Practice 8200 Effective Load Carrying Capability closed on Thursday, August 13.

Coming up

Comments by Wednesday, August 26: four 205(d) rate filings, the 4978 Blue Valley Grid Surplus Interconnection GIA, Revisions to Remove MSRs from the Calibration Adjustment Process, a clarification that LSEs must attest to compliance with Order 719's opt-in requirement, and the 4934 Beavertail Storage II Surplus Interconnection GIA.

Comments by Thursday, August 27: Revisions for FERC Order No. 831 Offer Caps and Specified GHG Adder Updates, Revisions to Update SHOC Multiplier and Conduct Threshold, Revisions to Markets+ Tariff for the Business Day Definition, and the 4193R3 City of Paris NITSA NOA.

Comments by Friday, August 28: the 4980 Kinsley Solar Surplus Interconnection GIA and the 4058R2 Missouri Electric Commission NITSA NOA Cancellation.

Comments by Monday, August 31: NERC's 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3.

Comments by Tuesday, September 1: five windows, led by the Show Cause Order on Transmission Service to Large Load, alongside the 4985 Western Area Power Administration CRSP Meter Agent filing, the 1166R48 Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority NITSA and NOA, Revisions to Address Resource Deregistration and Modification, and the 4986 North Plains Connector and Basin Electric HVDC filing.

Comments by Wednesday, September 2: the 3215R20 People's Electric Cooperative NITSA NOA and Revisions for Improvements to the Aggregate Transmission Service Study.

Comments by Wednesday, September 23: NERC's 2022-05 Modifications to CIP-008 Reporting Threshold.

The wide view

Across Southwest Power Pool, 151 items remain open and tracked, from BP 1700 Profiling Transmission Service and DAMKT VER Participation Calculation Clean Up to RC Operating Criteria Clarifications and OnSite Fuel. When any of them opens a window, it will appear here.

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