SPP
Southwest Power Pool · Great Plains
The Southwest Power Pool runs the windiest market in America: a Great Plains footprint where wind routinely sets the pace of dispatch and fast-moving weather redraws the supply stack in hours. The SPP map and Radar are live in Ask the Grid: public grid assets, real-time demand, the full fuel mix, hub prices, binding constraints and cleared ancillary services.
SPP on the live map
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What's live here.
Every dataset, sourced8 coverage areas live today. Each row is backed by named source feeds in the public data catalog — cadence and provenance included.
| Coverage | Detail | Cadence | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live map | Market geography and grid infrastructure on the map surface | — | Live |
| Real-time prices | Five-minute LMP at the SPP North and South trading hubs | — | Live |
| Wind & fuel mix | Generation by fuel, with wind as the defining series | — | Live |
| Demand & forecasts | Actual load with short-term wind and solar forecasts | — | Live |
| Ancillary services | Cleared regulation, ramp, spin, supplemental and uncertainty prices | — | Live |
| Constraints | Binding constraints with real-time shadow prices | — | Live |
| Agent coverage | Grid-agent questions grounded in SPP's published data | — | Live |
| Radar cockpit | Live wind and solar actuals against forecast, fuel mix, system conditions, hub prices, constraints, and six source clocks | Streaming / 5-min | Live |
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Reading the wind across the wires.
SPP sits under some of the best wind resource on the continent, and the market shows it: wind regularly supplies a larger share of demand here than in any other US market, and the operational question is less whether the wind blows than where the transmission can carry it. When output surges in one corner of the Plains and load sits in another, constraints bind and prices separate: the signature SPP pattern.
The radar is built around that pattern rather than around another market's shape. SPP settles nodally with no load-zone price tier, so prices are read at the SPP North and South trading hubs. Its ancillary market clears regulation as a service price and a mileage price per direction, which has no analog in the other markets Ask the Grid carries, so the desk shows SPP's own products under SPP's own names.
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