Tom Kleckner

Little Rock

SPP Correspondent at RTO Insider

SPP Correspondent for RTO Insider

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SPP Markets+ Phase 2 Governance Transition Approved by Panel

5 days ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Updates from SPP: Xcel Talks Markets+ Before Colorado PUC; 2024 State of the Market Released Markets+ governance during Phases 1 and 2 | SPP The panel of SPP board members overseeing the development of Markets+ has approved the governance transition plan for the construction phase of the day-ahead market....
Applications Open for TEF’s Non-ERCOT Grant Program

6 days ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

The Texas Public Utility Commission has begun accepting applications for up to $1 billion in grants under one of the four Texas Energy Fund programs it administers. The PUC said May 28 that companies with facilities outside the ERCOT region can apply for funding for transmission and distribution infrastructure or generating facilities in the MISO, SPP and WECC portions of Texas.
Applications Open for TEF’s Non-ERCOT Grant Program

6 days ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Looking to read the full article? Scroll down and login or sign up today! Applications Open for TEF’s Non-ERCOT Grant Program The Texas Public Utility Commission is administering the Texas Energy Fund.
Growing Clean Energy Sector in Texas May Avoid Damaging Legislation

1 week ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Texas lawmakers have been burning the midnight oil as the legislative session draws to a close. | © RTO Insider ERCOT's blossoming clean energy sector has been threatened by bills that would dampen its growth and future investment, but many of those laws appear to have fallen by the wayside in the Texas legislature's closing days.
SPP Readies Participants for Next Phase of Markets+

1 week ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Looking to read the full article? Scroll down and login or sign up today! SPP Readies Participants for Next Phase of Markets+ The current funding participants for Markets+'s next phase.
ESRs to Boost ERCOT During Summer

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Looking to read the full article? Scroll down and login or sign up today! Texas RE: ESRs to Boost ERCOT During Summer Spearmint Energy's 150-MW battery energy storage facility in West Texas is among the resources expected to help ERCOT meet demand this summer.
SPP ‘Confident’ in Meeting Demand this Summer

2 weeks ago | rtowww.com | Tom Kleckner

SPP says it expects it will have a “high probability” of enough generation to meet demand during peak-use hours this summer, despite predictions of a 40 to 60% chance of higher-than-average temperatures in the RTO’s 14-state footprint. The grid operator said there are similar chances that rainfall will be below average in most of its region. However, SPP’s analysis does not consider the use of energy imports or demand response programs or the potential effects of voluntary conservation programs.
SPP ‘Confident’ in Meeting Demand this Summer

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

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ERCOT, PUC Refining Future Load Projections

2 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

PUC Chair Thomas Gleeson asks ERCOT to refine it load-projection methodology. | Admin Monitor Texas regulators have declined ERCOT’s request for an exemption from including certain loads without interconnection agreements in its forecasts until the grid operator fine tunes its methodology.
Texas RE’s Albright Hopes to Learn from Iberian Outage

3 weeks ago | rtoinsider.com | Tom Kleckner

Texas RE CEO Jim Albright hopes to apply learnings from the Iberian blackout to the Texas region. | © RTO Insider Texas Reliability Entity CEO Jim Albright sees similarities between the issues facing the U.S. and European grid and hopes to learn from the recent Iberian Peninsula outage.