Southwest Power Pool

Twenty-four comment windows close in the next seven days, and the first three of them close today. A new Show Cause Order on Transmission Service to Large Load arrived with comments open through September 1.

Corrected November 7, 2026. The first version of this edition said seventeen comment windows closed this week and left out other open electricity windows. This version lists them, corrects the counts, repairs the revision request links, and describes the 151 as tracked items rather than open ones.

The through line: twenty-four windows

This is a week for filing, not for reading ahead. Twenty-four comment windows close between today and next Monday, ten of them on named initiatives and fourteen on routine dockets. At the same time, about two dozen 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 in the next seven days

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

Wednesday, August 19: post-technical conference comments close on improved market and planning software, Docket AD10-12-017.

Thursday, August 20: the FERC-725S information collection extension closes.

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

Monday, August 24: four more, the Storage Reliability and Flexibility Initiative, BP 7700 RFP Criteria Points Weighting, initial comments in the financial forms rulemaking, Docket RM26-12-000, and the FERC-516 information collection extension. The two revision requests opened only this past week, so those windows are short.

Fourteen routine docket filings also close in the next seven days. Today, Monday, August 17 takes ER26-3276-000, the 1276R43 Evergy Metro NITSA NOA, and ER26-3279-000, the 3211R9 North Iowa Municipal Electric Cooperative Association NITSA and NOA. 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 revision request 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; ER26-3425-000, 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: ER26-3447-000, Revisions for FERC Order No. 831 Offer Caps and Specified GHG Adder Updates; ER26-3448-000, Revisions to Update SHOC Multiplier and Conduct Threshold; ER26-3449-000, 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 Tuesday, September 8: the FERC-556 information collection extension, the FERC-912 information collection extension, the FERC-561 information collection extension, and the FERC-555 information collection extension.

Comments by Thursday, September 10: the Annual Revisions to Attachment W - Index of Grandfathered Agreements.

Comments by Tuesday, September 22: reply comments in the financial forms rulemaking, Docket RM26-12-000.

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

Comments by Friday, September 25: the FERC-603 information collection extension.

The wide view

Across Southwest Power Pool, 151 items sit on the tracked list for this edition, from BP 1700 Profiling Transmission Service and DAMKT VER Participation Calculation Clean Up to RC Operating Criteria Clarifications and OnSite Fuel.

Dates and documents throughout are the source's own; this edition adds sequencing, not interpretation. For the same coverage across several markets, with the weekly written edition, there is the Pro tier.