The Southwest Power Pool (SPP), our grid to the west, went into conservation operations on February 9 and declared an Energy Emergency Alert on February 15, asking customers to conserve energy.

Texas’ power grid crumples under the cold Competition for natural gas and frozen wind turbines are only some of the problems. John Timmer – Feb 15, 2021 2:59 pm | 889 ...

To understand what the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is, it helps to understand how the North American electric power system is configured. The contiguous U.S. is comprised of ...

SPP’s decision to designate Xcel Energy to build these projects will enable development to start quickly, Xcel said. Over the ...

Xcel Energy announced this week it has been awarded three projects by the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) to build new high voltage power lines that will improve electric reliability in Texas and New ...