Southwest Power Pool

Everything the week asks of you is due by Thursday: a NERC standards window closes today, SPP's show cause order on transmission service to large load follows tomorrow, and the DPP Fee proposal closes Wednesday. Behind them, six windows land together on September 10.

The through line: done by Thursday

Seven comment windows close this week, and every one of them falls between today and Thursday. After that the calendar goes quiet until Tuesday, September 8, then stacks up hard the following Thursday. If you plan to file anywhere this week, the work is front-loaded; if you plan to file next week, September 10 is the day to clear.

Closing this week

Monday, August 31, today: comments close on NERC's 2025-01 Canadian-Specific Revisions to EOP-012-3.

Tuesday, September 1: the window closes on SPP's Show Cause Order - Transmission Service to Large Load.

Wednesday, September 2: comments close on the Detailed Project Proposal (DPP) Fee revision request, which arrived only this week.

The routine docket work wraps up midweek as well. Wednesday, September 2 also closes ER26-2955-001, a tariff amendment for the 3215R20 People's Electric Cooperative NITSA NOA, and ER26-3487-000, a Section 205(d) rate filing. Thursday, September 3 closes ER26-3506-000, the 4987 NextEra Energy Resources Development Surplus filing, and ER26-3510-000, a 205(d) rate filing on MSR Self-Committed revisions.

What moved

Comment windows closed on August 24 for two SPP revision requests: the Storage Reliability and Flexibility Initiative and BP 7700 RFP Criteria Points Weighting.

Coming up

Tuesday, September 8: comments due on the 4983 Torchlight Solar GIA rate filing.

Thursday, September 10: six windows close at once: the Annual Revisions to Attachment W - Index of Grandfathered Agreements, SPP's compliance filing in response to the order issued in ER26-2703 (CNPPID), the 1518R31 Arkansas Electric Cooperative NITSA NOAs, the 4887 Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Provisional Load Process Agreement, the 4991 Steel Track Solar GIA, and the 4988 NextEra Energy Resources Development Surplus GIA.

Friday, September 11: the 3055R5 Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. NITSA NOA and the 1628R33 Western Farmers Electric Cooperative NITSA NOAs.

Monday, September 14: five more windows: the 1154R15 Associated Electric Cooperative NITSA and NOA, revisions to modify the CHILL Policy to accommodate planned outages, revisions to Attachment AE to improve Co-Located Resource functionality, revisions to establish EMT Study requirements in the GI Process, and revisions for the Affiliate Designation Registration Requirement, whose stated effective date, 12/31/9998, at least removes any implementation suspense.

Tuesday, September 15: a second affiliate filing, the Attachment AE Revisions for Affiliate Designation Registration Requirement.

Friday, September 18: two FERC information collection comment requests, FERC-725U and FERC-923.

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

Thursday, September 24: the FERC-725E and FERC-606 and FERC-607 information collection extensions.

Monday, September 28: the FERC-516 information collection comment request on merger, with extension.

Monday, October 26: the FERC-725S comment request and NERC's Standards Processes Manual Revisions.

The wide view

Twenty-seven items arrived in the last seven days, among them four MRO notices: the enforcement team's new opportunities for entity engagement, an election result for the MRO Board of Directors, small group advisory sessions on the coming CIP virtualization standards, and combustion turbine generator winterization guidance. FERC also accepted a GreenGenStorage, LLC application for filing and is soliciting motions to intervene and protests. Across the market, 167 items remain open and tracked.

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