PHILADELPHIA, PA--(Marketwired - October 04, 2017) - Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) recently announced the intention of the Mountain West Transmission Group (Mountain West), a coalition of 10 electricity providers in the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region, to pursue public negotiations on the matter of Mountain West utilities joining the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) Regional Transmission Organization (RTO). While WAPA's announcement is just the start of a multi-year process with a variety of regulatory hurdles to be overcome Customized Energy Solutions' (CES) Market Intelligence team in SPP is fully ready to provide our clients insights on developments during the process, including the potential impacts to the market and individual market participants.