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Southwest power utilities decided to pool their generation resources together to ensure the region's reliability and dependability during wartime. The existence of
Southwest Power Pool was out of necessity and scarcity. After the war, executives saw the expertise and efficiency that was created and decided to remain a power pool.
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The Jones Mill Plant alone required 120 megawatts (MW) of electrical power to operate. This exceeded the state's entire generation of 100 MW at peak, excluding outages. Due to the war effort, there was not enough manpower or raw materials to build further electrical generation. Executives of
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manages the electric grid and wholesale power market for the central United States. As a regional transmission organization, the nonprofit corporation is mandated by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to ensure reliable supplies of power, adequate transmission infrastructure and competitive
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Southwest Power Pool, Inc. was formed Dec. 14, 1941, with 11 regional utilities entering into an inter-company agreement. The 11 companies were
Arkansas Power & Light, Louisiana Power & Light, and Mississippi Power & Light (subsidiaries of
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SPP also provides services in the
Western Interconnection as of 2019 in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona, Montana, and Utah. SPP is developing an Energy Imbalance Service Market in the West as well.
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