Regional power grid operator Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock elects two new members of its independent board of directors and reelects one existing director to another term. read more >
Seven western utilities have committed to joining the nonprofit, the first major expansion of SPP’s RTO service territory since October 2015. read more >
Arkansas is set to see its first wind farm this year or next, a $300 million scattering of 500-foot-tall turbines with the capacity to generate 180 megawatts of electricity. read more >
On April 1, 2020, Barbara Sugg became president and CEO of Southwest Power Pool, the not-for-profit electric grid market manager based in Little Rock. read more >
Read what eight Arkansas women have to say about their management experience. read more >
She will take the role effective March 13, replacing former CFO Tom Dunn, who retired in December. read more >
The regional transmission organization has published details on a power service to western U.S. markets called Markets+. read more >
SaskPower, as it is known, joined in an effort to “increase reliability through interregional coordination." read more >
In an Aug. 31 letter, the Arizona entities declared an intent to build with SPP a market to include “both a workable governance framework and a robust market design,” calling the agreement an important milestone for all parties. read more >
Five of the new entities are in Washington State, and one, Powerex Corp. of Vancouver, is in Canada. read more >
While SPP expects sufficient resources to meet demand, its summer assessment found potential local issues it hopes to address with entities serving overloaded regions. read more >
The organization also released its 2021 annual report, which found that it provided $2.7 billion in yearly net benefits to members. read more >
They bring experience in cybersecurity, transmission planning and finance. read more >
The new members represent health care, technology, energy and education sectors. read more >
A future disruption as severe as when a deadly winter storm overwhelmed Texas’ power supply appears far less likely in Arkansas. read more >
Organizations can dismantle systemic racism and disrupt inequity by treating those goals like any other business target, Janet Stovall, a senior client strategist at NeuroLeadership Institute, said during the Soirée Women’s Leadership Symposium. read more >
Southwest Power Pool, the electric grid manager with headquarters in Little Rock, is reviewing its performance and its member utilities’ actions during last month’s arctic weather in Arkansas and surrounding states. read more >
Southwest Power Pool, the Little Rock-based nonprofit manager of the electric grid, is the first regional transmission organization to have wind as its biggest generation resource, topping power generated by burning coal and natural gas. read more >
Western utilities are looking to Southwest Power Pool for potential savings in electricity transmission, the not-for-profit Little Rock regional transmission organization said this week in a news release. read more >
Southwest Power Pool, the nonprofit regional power transmission organization, buried the lead in its report on this month's quarterly meetings in Little Rock, its headquarters. read more >
