SPP Foresees Ample Power for Summer, With Caveats
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 >
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 >
She brings more than 20 years of experience in social justice, public policy and community engagement to the power grid operator. read more >
They bring experience in cybersecurity, transmission planning and finance. read more >
A panel will be tasked with be reviewing, ranking and scoring proposals. read more >
Last year’s gas and grid shortcomings echoed this month: Instruments froze, output plunged, and burn-offs spewed greenhouse gases into the sky. read more >
The goal is to avoid an electrical grid crisis like the one that crippled Texas last winter. read more >
The new members represent health care, technology, energy and education sectors. read more >
Talina Mathews has been appointed director of state regulatory policy at Southwest Power Pool of Little Rock. read more >
Sarah Palmiero has been hired as wellness administrator for JTS Financial in Little Rock. 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 >
Southwest Power Pool leaders revamped its mission statement and heard an update on the savings the regional grid operator offers to members in meetings last week in Little Rock. read more >
Steve Dunlevy has been hired as vice president of manufacturing operations by Hytrol Conveyor Co. Inc. in Jonesboro. read more >
Entergy Arkansas, the state’s largest electric utility, is seeking at least 300 megawatts of renewable generation projects to supplement its electrical supply by 2026. read more >
As Gov. Asa Hutchinson orders a state inquiry into how Arkansas’ electricity grid performed in February’s record cold snap and power generation crisis, Arkansas utilities plot ways to ease impacts on customers resulting from fuel price spikes during the emergency. 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 >
As utilities and authorities investigate why millions of Texans were left without power last week, Arkansas power experts are looking for lessons in the debacle, and explaining how Arkansas and other states largely avoided Texas’ fate. read more >
Two of Arkansas' leading electric utility executives say the state is "not out of the woods yet" after limited cold-weather blackouts mandated in emergency orders by the two regional transmission organizations based in Little Rock. read more >
One of Little Rock's two regional transmission organizations for the electric grid said Monday that, for the first time in its history, it had directed member utilities to implement controlled interruptions of service to prevent widespread and uncontrolled power outages. 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 >
