FERC Approves Reformed Interconnection Procedures of Southwest Power Pool

SUGAR LAND--August 11, 2009--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) (Washington, D.C.) has granted conditional approval to the reformed interconnection procedures of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP). The SPP anticipates that the reformed procedures would help it process the 255 or so pending interconnection requests covering 57,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation. The SPP would be the third independent system operator to reform its interconnection process. The independent transmission system operators for California and the Midwest reformed their interconnection processes in 2008.