Southwest Power Pool

Southwest Power Pool

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The SPP region lies within the Eastern Interconnection, in the central Southern United States, serving all of the State of Kansas, and portions of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. SPP members include investor-owned utilities, municipal systems, generation and transmission cooperatives, state authorities, independent power producers, and power marketers. SPP has two of the six high voltage direct current (DC) ties which connect the Eastern interconnection to the Western Interconnection and both of the DC ties to the Texas Interconnection.

ee also

* North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

External links

* [http://www.spp.org Home Page]
* [http://www.spp.org/section.asp?pageID=1 history of SPP]


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