Tom Kleckner

Little Rock

SPP Correspondent at RTO Insider

SPP Correspondent for RTO Insider

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The Unseen Costs of Subsidized Solar

5 days ago | rtoinsider.com | Robert Mullin |Tom Kleckner |James Downing |Elaine Goodman

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SPP Approves 6th Competitive Transmission Project

1 week ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

OMAHA, Neb. — SPP has approved its sixth competitive project under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV transmission line in Oklahoma. There’s more to come. SPP also said it has classified two additional transmission projects as meeting the criteria for being considered competitive upgrades.
SPP Approves 6th Competitive Transmission Project

1 week ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Steve Strickland explains an industry expert panel's decision to select a transmission owner for SPP's latest competitive project. | © RTO Insider SPP approved its sixth competitive project under FERC Order 1000, a 345-kV transmission line in Oklahoma, with two more upgrades in the pipeline.
AEP to Meet Load Growth with More Infrastructure

1 week ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

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SPP Addresses 3rd Load Shed Since March 31

1 week ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

OMAHA, Neb. — SPP staff have told its state regulators and board members that it will do better after three local load sheds since March 31. The outages affected a combined 54,000 customers in northwestern Louisiana and mostly oil and gas facilities in southeastern New Mexico. “They’re concerning, and we are committed to analyzing what went wrong and what we need to do to get better,” SPP CEO Lanny Nickell said May 5 during the Regional State Committee’s quarterly meeting.
ERCOT's TAC Endorses Congestion Management Plan

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

ERCOT's large-load interconnection queue continues to balloon. | ERCOT ERCOT stakeholders endorsed a protocol change that creates a process to compensate market participants when a constrained management plan or switching instruction trips a generator that otherwise would have stayed online.
After Hitting Milestones, Markets+ Participants Advance on Phase 2

2 weeks ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

DENVER — Markets+ stakeholders will have little opportunity to ease up in coming months despite a wave of favorable developments for the market. Those include FERC’s recent approval of the Markets+ tariff, funding agreement and a pair of compliance requests, as well as participants agreeing on most of the market protocols. SPP has officially set Oct. 1, 2027, as the go-live date for Markets+, its centralized, day-ahead offering in the Western Interconnection.
After Hitting Milestones, Markets+ Participants Advance on Phase 2

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Puget Sound Energy's Jessica Zahnow explains proposed meeting attendance requirements and use of proxies. | © RTO Insider Markets+ stakeholders will have little opportunity to ease up in coming months despite a wave of favorable developments for the market.
FERC Denies Solar Farm’s Waiver

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

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Xcel ‘Optimistic’ It Will Handle Tariffs, Trade War

2 weeks ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

Xcel Energy CEO Bob Frenzel tried to reassure the investment community during the company’s first-quarter earnings call that it is better prepared for the trade war that may or may not be coming and the tariffs — not the ones utilities are accustomed to — that already have arrived. “The sentiment meter has definitely changed over the last 45 days, but I don’t think we’ve seen a lot of change in actual activity yet, either,” Frenzel told financial analysts during the April 24 call.