Southwest Power Pool narrowly avoids blackouts
The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) issued its highest-level alert on Monday, July 20, 2026, for its western states, including Colorado. SPP’s West balancing authority is back to stable operations at the time of publication, but for a short while on Monday, grid conditions were dicey. By Monday, July 20, at 4:38 p.m. CT, SPP had put its western region under an EEA Level 1, which is at a […]
Colorado Joins the Southwest Power Pool. Now What?
Last night, several Colorado-based utilities officially joined the Southwest Power Pool, a regional transmission organization serving members in all or part of 17 states. Colorado Springs Utilities, Platte River Power Authority, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, and others have become part of the RTO, which is the first “to bridge the eastern and western electric grids.” […]
