August 10, 2026
Trump Split With Gov. Abbott Just Compressed Every Operator's Audit TimelineThe bill was expected to drive billions in private investment and relieve pressure on the Southwest Power Pool.
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SPP (Southwest Power Pool) is a regional transmission organization that manages the electric grid and wholesale energy market for parts of Texas and multiple surrounding states.
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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 21, 2026
Cost-Causation Is Here. Generation-First Siting Wins the 226 GW Queue.FERC's June 18 Section 206 orders give PJM, MISO, SPP, CAISO, ISO-NE, and NYISO 60 days to justify or reform large-load pricing and 30 days to file reliability reports.
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.
April 1, 2026
Utilities Waited. SoftBank, Google, and the Army Didn't.SPP saw thermal interconnection requests jump tenfold in a single year.
March 17, 2026
Virginia Led. Now New Jersey and Illinois Want Hyperscalers to Pay the Grid Bill.Meanwhile, Xcel Energy doubled its contracted datacenter pipeline to 6 GW by end-2027 and landed a $1.5 billion 765-kV transmission line in the Southwest Power Pool.
March 6, 2026
Seven Signatures, One Fed Model, and 0.13 Points of InflationThe company holds 4 GW of pre-permitted sites across ERCOT, SPP, PJM, and MISO, and says off-takers for green hydrogen simply wouldn't commit.
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