EL26-68-000 · 2026-08-14 · FERC

Letter order granting the SPP Joint Movants' abeyance motion for 95 days, to November 20, 2026

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Topics in the text: Filing procedure · Cost allocation

What the document says

Unpaginated filing

SPP gets 95 days instead of 90, so its response is due November 20.

we grant the Abeyance Motion filed by Joint Movants and hold this proceeding in abeyance for 95 days, until November 20, 2026 Source text
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Unpaginated filing

SPP gets 95 days instead of 90, so its response is due November 20.

Therefore, responses to the Show Cause Order will be due on November 20, 2026, and answers to responses will be due on December 21, 2026. Source text

Unpaginated filing

SPP's extra five days exist because its Board vote moved to November 17 around elections.

the date of the SPP Board meeting was originally scheduled on November 3, 2026 but was changed to accommodate upcoming elections and a National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners conference Source text

Unpaginated filing

A timely section 205 filing suspends that respondent's duty to answer the show-cause order.

then the obligation of the respondent(s) who have made such an FPA section 205 filing to file a response to the Show Cause Order will be suspended Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC invites each respondent to say which tariff revisions justify ending the show-cause case.

we encourage SPP and/or Transmission Owners to explain, with specificity, which of their proposed Tariff revisions they believe resolve all or some of the Commission’s preliminary findings in the Show Cause Order Source text

Unpaginated filing

FERC wants the tariff changes in fast, with an effective date that respects existing deals.

we encourage SPP and/or Transmission Owners to propose an effective date that takes into account the necessary time to implement the proposed Tariff revisions and accommodate existing commercial arrangements Source text

Responses and related views

Why SPP asked for five more days than other operators

Southwest Power Pool · Related public statement

SPP told FERC its board meeting had moved because of the elections. The revised November 17 vote made a November 16 filing impractical; FERC granted a November 20 response date.

SPP motion and Commission determination (unpaginated)

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Opening text

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Electric Cooperative, Inc., and Xcel Energy Services, Inc. (collectively, Joint Movants) filed a motion to hold the above-referenced show cause proceeding in abeyance, in full, for 95 days, up to and including November 20, 2026, pending completion of SPP’s stakeholder proceedings and submittal of…
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Footnotes

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Abeyance Motion at 1 n.1. [fn:8] Show Cause Order, 195 FERC ¶ 61,213 at P 33. [fn:9] Id. [fn:10] Abeyance Motion at 4. [fn:11] Id. at 8-10. [fn:12] Id. at 11-12. [fn:13] Id. at 13-14. [fn:14] Id. at 14-15. [fn:15] Id. at 16-17. [fn:16] Id. at 17. [fn:17] Id. at 7, 17-18. [fn:18] Notice Establishing…
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