EL26-68-000 · 2026-08-03 · Southwest Power Pool, Inc.

SPP requests more time to answer the June 18 show cause order

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Topics in the text: Filing procedure · Cost allocation · Connecting load and generation

Responses and related views

Missouri supports five extra days to secure a state review

Missouri Public Service Commission · Direct response

Missouri backed the 95-day request because SPP’s November 17 board vote fell just beyond the 90-day window. It said the extra days allowed meaningful state input without materially delaying the case.

PDF pp. 1, 3–5

SPP’s state committee wanted time to develop a cost proposal

SPP Regional State Committee · Direct response

The committee endorsed a November 20 deadline while its cost-allocation team studied who should secure network costs if promised demand fails to arrive or leaves early. The filing endorsed the schedule, not a final cost-allocation formula.

PDF pp. 1–2

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EL26-68-000 JOINT MOVANTS’ MOTION TO HOLD SECTION 206 PROCEEDING IN ABEYANCE Southwest Power Pool, Inc. (“SPP”), American Electric Power Service Corporation, Evergy, Inc., GridLiance High Plains LLC, ITC Great Plains, LLC, Mountrail-Williams Electric Cooperative, NextEra Energy Transmission…
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I. INTRODUCTION

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INTRODUCTION

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Specifically, the Commission states that it: will consider requests from SPP and/or the Transmission Owners to hold, for up to 90 days, all or certain aspects of this FPA section 206 proceeding in abeyance, including the deadline to respond to this order.
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II. GOOD CAUSE EXISTS TO HOLD THIS PROCEEDING IN ABEYANCE

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GOOD CAUSE EXISTS TO HOLD THIS PROCEEDING IN ABEYANCE Good cause exists to grant the Joint Movants' abeyance request.
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III. SPP’S STAKEHOLDER PROCESS NECESSITATES ADDITIONAL TIME

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By contrast, the requested ninety-five (95) day abeyance will permit, although still on an expedited time frame, SPP to convene the necessary stakeholder meetings, develop and refine draft revisions to the Committee, comprising a committee or working group that is charged with specific…
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IV. ANTICIPATED SECTION 205 FILING

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ANTICIPATED SECTION 205 FILING Unlike a typical request to defer a procedural deadline, the Commission expressly directed respondents seeking abeyance to provide a detailed description of the anticipated Tariff revisions that would be developed during the requested abeyance period.12 Consistent…
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A. Transmission Service to Eligible Customers on Behalf of Large Loads

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High Impact Large Loads must register as such in accordance with Attachment AE of the Tariff and follow the processes specified in Attachment BA of the Tariff.”. 16 Tariff, Attachment BA. 17 Tariff, Attachment BA, Section 2.1.3.4.
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B. Cost Shifting Risk Among Transmission Customers

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Cost Shifting Risk Among Transmission Customers The Commission preliminarily found that the Tariff is unjust and unreasonable because it does not require the public posting, of information regarding transmission 19 Show Cause Order at P 46. 20 Id. 21 Tariff, Attachment F. 22 Tariff, Attachment A.…
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C. Co-Location Arrangements and Load with Behind-The-Meter

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Co-Location Arrangements and Load with Behind-The-Meter Generation The Commission preliminarily found that the Tariff should provide greater clarity regarding the treatment of co-located29 resources and behind-the-meter generation, including the circumstances under which such resources are subject…
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D. Extending New Transmission Services to Eligible Customers Taking

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Correspondingly, PALS would establish a new transmission service under which participating loads would receive transmission service subject to usage-based pricing, mandatory dispatchability requirements, and Curtailment during transmission constraints, Emergency Conditions, or local reliability…
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V. OVERALL SCHEDULE AND ANTICIPATED SECTION 205 FILING

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A ninety-five (95) day abeyance is necessary because the Board must provide final authorization for the Section 205 filing described herein and is not scheduled to meet until November 17, 2026.37 Following Board authorization, SPP requires a brief period to finalize and submit the resulting Section…
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VI. REQUEST

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The Show Cause Order requires abeyance requests to be filed by August 3, 2026, and expressly contemplates that the Commission will issue an order on any such request prior to the response deadline of August 17, 2026 (14 days after the abeyance request deadline). 19 administrative efficiency and…
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VII. CONCLUSION

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CONCLUSION

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CONCLUSION For the reasons stated herein, Joint Movants respectfully request the Commission: (1) Grant this Motion and hold the above-captioned proceeding in abeyance for ninety-five (95) days, up to and including November 20, 2026, to permit SPP to complete its stakeholder process and submit a…
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C. Patrick Woods

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Patrick Woods President ITC Great Plains, LLC 3500 SW Fairlawn Rd., Ste. 101 Topeka, KS 66614 On Behalf of ITC Great Plains, LLC Meredith Powell Justin A.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

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Dated at Little Rock, Arkansas, this 3rd day of August, 2026. /s/ Cassie Butler Cassie Butler Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 201 Worthen Drive Little Rock, AR 72223-4936 (501) 614-3200
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