On October 19, 2017, FERC ordered Southwest Power Pool, Inc.
("SPP") to revise its Open Access Transmission Tariff
("OATT") to provide that network customers with service
subject to redispatch can only obtain Auction Revenue Rights
("ARRs") and Long-Term Congestion Rights
("LTCRs") for those times and in the amounts that service
can be provided without redispatch.
Under SPP's OATT, when a firm transmission service request
requires transmission upgrades, SPP commences service prior to
completion of the transmission upgrades if SPP can address the
constraint identified in the system impact studies through
"redispatch" until the transmission upgrades are placed
into service. In March 2016, SPP proposed revisions to its
OATT that would permit customers with network service subject to
redispatch to obtain ARRs and LTCRs associated with that
service. By contrast, under SPP's OATT, customers with
firm point-to-point transmission service subject to redispatch
