Southwest Power Pool members, including Oklahoma, received a continuation of a Resource Advisory because of the lingering heat dome that produces temperatures into the 90s across much of the country’s middle.
In a notice this week, the SPP said it was extending its current Advisory for the entire balancing authority area (14 states) through Friday, Oct. at 7 p.m. central time. The advisory was first issued and went into effect Monday noon and was originally scheduled through Wednesday evening.
In layman’s terms, it is simply an advisory and does not require the public to conserve energy. The SPP explained such advisories are issued to raise awareness of potential threats to reliability among entities responsible for operating transmission and generation facilities.
They are also declared because of forecasts of potentially high peak loads due to unseasonably warm temperatures, low expected output from wind and other energy resources leading into peak hours and ahigh volume of planned resource outages.