Renewable Gossip

On July 31, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conditionally approved the Southwest Power Pool’s (“SPP”) reformed interconnection procedures. SPP hopes that the reformed procedures will help the transmission provider more effectively process the approximately 255 pending interconnection requests in the queue that account for 57,000 megawatts (“MW”) of generation. SPP now joins other independent system operators that have undergone interconnection queue reform—the Midwest ISO and California ISO revised their interconnection procedures in 2008.