From Southwest Power Pool: CURRENT ELECTRICAL GRID CONDITIONS; Current Grid Conditions (Last updated July 15, 2022, at 10:27 a.m. Central Time

Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is issuing a new Conservative Operations Advisory for its entire 14-state balancing authority (BA) area effective Monday, July 18 from 12 p.m. through 10 p.m. central time (CT). The same region is currently under previously announced Resource and Conservative Operations Advisories that are expected to expire as scheduled tonight (Friday, July 15) at 10 p.m. CT. No advisories or alerts are currently in effect between July 15 at 10 p.m. and July 18 at noon

Conservative Operations Advisories do not require the public to conserve energy. SPP issues Conservative Operations Advisories to signal to utilities that own and operate transmission and generation facilities that there is a need to operate the bulk power system more conservatively to mitigate risks associated with weather, environmental, operational, terrorist, cyber or other events. SPP has declared this advisory because of high demand for electricity across its region and the availability of generation resources.

Generation and transmission operators have been provided instructions on applicable procedures, including to report any limitations, fuel shortages or concerns. SPP will send additional information if necessary or as conditions change.

The following chart illustrates the relative severity of the Conservative Operations Advisory in effect Monday, July 18 from noon until 10 p.m. CT.

Descriptions of common reliability events are provided below in increasing order of severity:

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