Southwest Power Pool

Both SPP balancing authority areas spent part of last week under a Resource Advisory, with constraints binding at shadow prices above $1,000/MWh into Monday. This week, 14 comment windows close, including two FERC Order No. 1920 interregional coordination addenda to SPP Tariff Attachment O.

Corrected November 6, 2026. The first version of this edition listed an October 16, 2027 comment deadline for the City of Pelican, AK notice. That notice asks for no comments; the date concerns the automatic renewal of an annual license. The first version also left out eight open windows. This version lists them, describes the remaining 163 as tracked items rather than open ones, and repairs the revision request links.

Grid conditions this week

October 28: SPP declared a Resource Advisory for the East Balancing Authority Area to take effect Thursday, October 29, at 12 p.m. CT, with an anticipated end time of 6 p.m. CT.

October 30: SPP declared a Resource Advisory for the West Balancing Authority Area in effect Friday, October 30, at 3:30 a.m. CT, with an anticipated end time of Saturday, October 31, at 12 a.m. (midnight) CT.

October 30: SPP terminated the West BAA Resource Advisory as of 12:30 p.m. CT, due to improved conditions related to outages and forecast uncertainty.

On prices:

November 2: 5 constraints bound at a shadow price of $500/MWh or more; the largest was TMP258 33438 (LN AUR1241 - RDSPG5) at $1,245/MWh, 12:05 AM CT.

November 1: the CRSP hub reached $641/MWh in the interval ending 8:15 PM CT.

November 1: 6 constraints bound at $500/MWh or more; the largest was TMP258 33438 (LN AUR1241 - RDSPG5) at $1,500/MWh, 9:20 PM CT.

October 31: the SPPSOUTH hub reached $224/MWh in the interval ending 12:20 AM CT.

October 30: the CRSP hub reached $224/MWh in the interval ending 6:05 AM CT.

October 30: 4 constraints bound at $500/MWh or more; the largest was TP1011 32349 (LN JAMESTN - CARNGTN) at $1,499/MWh, 9:30 AM CT.

October 29: the CRSP hub reached $247/MWh in the interval ending 10:05 PM CT.

October 29: 5 constraints bound at $500/MWh or more; the largest was TMP613 32138 (LN WILISTN2 - LTLMUDDY) at $1,675/MWh, 7:15 PM CT.

The Order No. 1920 addenda to Attachment O

Two revision requests close on the same day: Addendum 6 to SPP Tariff Attachment O, on FERC Order No. 1920 Western Interregional Coordination, and Addendum 4, on FERC Order No. 1920 SERTP Interregional Coordination. Both windows close Wednesday, November 4.

Closing this week

Tuesday, November 3: Revision Request Update: Intermediate Planning Manual and Focused Portfolio.

Wednesday, November 4: the two Order No. 1920 addenda above.

Thursday, November 5: Commission information collection activities for FERC-603.

Friday, November 6: DPP Window Extension Clarification.

Eight routine filings also close. On November 3, ER27-118-000, a 205(d) rate filing revising the Tariff to add a marginal GHG price. On November 4, the rest: ER27-128-000, non-substantive revisions to Attachment H; three Markets+ filings, ER27-129-000, ER27-131-000, and ER27-136-000; and three Public Service Company of Oklahoma GIAs, numbers 5014, 5015, and 5016, under ER27-139-000, ER27-140-000, and ER27-141-000.

What moved

Comment windows closed on October 30 for three filings: the refund report on the Amended and Restated Emergency Energy Transactions Agreement, the 3474R2 Clarksville Connected Utilities refund report, and the Markets+ Tariff revisions to enhance the Market Storage Resource Design. On October 26, windows closed on SPP Dynamic modeling Requirements, which remains on the tracked list, and on the Standards Processes Manual revisions.

Six revision requests left the tracked list: SPP-RR0653, SPP-RR0658, SPP-RR0736, SPP-RR0746, SPP-RR0747, and SPP-RR0761.

Also new: the NERC Board adopted foundational computational load standards, and a notice of staff review of NERC's enforcement programs was published October 27.

Coming up

Comments by November 11: Real-Time Balancing Market Offer Submission Timing, a revision request posted October 28.

Comments by November 13: References Requirement Removal, a revision request posted October 30, and four SPP filings published October 28: the compliance filing giving notice of the effective date to remove MSRs from the Calibration Adjustment Process, the 4195R1 Northern Divide Energy Storage GIA (to be effective 12/23/2026), the 4318R1 SPS GIA (to be effective 10/1/2026), and the 5017 Hickory Creek Project GIA (to be effective 9/24/2026).

Comments by November 16: Commission information collection activities for FERC-725A, 725L, and 725Z.

Comments by November 17: Aligning SPP Planning Criteria with WECC TPL-001-CRT4, a revision request posted October 30, on SPP's RR Master List.

Comments by November 18: Notification Clarification, a revision request posted October 28.

Comments by November 20: the Standard Authorization Request for NERC's 2026-03 Computational Loads Disturbance Performance, in an informal comment period open since October 22.

Comments by December 10: the second formal posting of NERC's 2024-02 Planning Energy Assurance, open since October 28.

Comments by December 14: Commission information collection activities for FERC-725B.

The wide view

The tracked list for this edition holds 163 more items, among them the Short-term Reliability Project (STRP) Agreement, the 2030 Planning Reserve Margin, and FERC Order 881 RDS Revisions.

Dates and documents are the source's own. For the same coverage across several markets, see the Pro tier.