August 10, 2026
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Southwest Power Pool
The Southwest Power Pool is a regional transmission organization that operates electric transmission systems across portions of Texas and other south-central states, coordinating wholesale power markets and grid reliability for member utilities.
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June 30, 2026
Home-Rule Authority Faces Its First Real Test in San MarcosFERC, ERCOT, PJM, and Southwest Power Pool are converging on commitment-first planning to strip speculative megawatts out of forecasts.
June 29, 2026
Washington Set the Deadline. Texas Already Wrote the Playbook.The order lands as ERCOT, PJM, and the Southwest Power Pool converge on "commitment-first" planning to separate real demand from speculative megawatts.
June 27, 2026
Anchors Are Building Their Own Power to Skip the Texas QueueSouthwest Power Pool built a $72 million transmission project to relieve congestion at the Mathewson Substation in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma.
June 19, 2026
Site Control Now Beats a Press Release in ERCOT's QueueFERC issued six show-cause orders Thursday directing PJM, MISO, Southwest Power Pool, CAISO, ISO New England, and NYISO to justify or rewrite large-load tariffs within 60 days and file resource adequacy reports within 30.
June 2, 2026
Ride-Through Becomes the New Phase I Discipline for Texas SitesThe Southwest Power Pool already runs similar rules and PJM is watching.
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