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KCC warns SPP’s 2025 plan and rapid load growth will require major transmission investment
Summary
Justin Grady told legislators the Southwest Power Pool’s 2025 Integrated Transmission Plan initially proposed about $18.1 billion of projects and was trimmed to $8.5 billion of notices-to-construct after stakeholder engagement; he cited SPP modeling that showed demand growth (a 25% increase in MWh by 2030 and up to a 33% increase by 2034 in the base reliability model) and warned of serious load-shed risk without timely transmission investment.
Justin Grady, utilities division director at the Kansas Corporation Commission, told the committee that Southwest Power Pool’s (SPP) 2025 Integrated Transmission Plan (ITP) originally proposed roughly $18.1 billion in new transmission projects but, following stakeholder engagement and revisions, the board issued notices to construct totaling about $8.5 billion focused on near-term reliability projects.
Grady emphasized SPP’s rapidly changing load forecasts: he said the ITP’s base reliability model projects about 72 gigawatts of load by 2034 (roughly a 33% increase) and…
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