Integ prepares clients for the SPP Integrated Marketplace to go live in 2014

The Integrated Marketplace program is the latest – but most complex – incremental step in SPP's approach to improving service to members and the region. The Integrated Marketplace will determine which generating units should run the next day for maximum cost-effectiveness, provide participants with greater access to reserve electricity, improve regional balancing of supply and demand, and facilitate the integration of renewable resources.


The Integrated Marketplace will include:

• A Day-Ahead Market with Transmission Congestion Rights.
• A Reliability Unit Commitment process.
• A Real-Time Balancing Market (replacing the current Energy Imbalance Service Market).
• The incorporation of price-based Operating Reserves procurement.
• In addition, the current Balancing Authorities within the SPP footprint will combine to form a Consolidated Balancing Authority.