{"id":32576,"date":"2022-04-13T14:24:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32576"},"modified":"2022-04-13T14:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:24:33","slug":"power-pool-representative-pay-cap-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32576","title":{"rendered":"Power pool representative pay cap increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a measure April 12 that raises the limit on total compensation for Nebraska\u2019s representative on a Southwest Power Pool committee.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20142\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20142\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20142\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senhughes_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dan Hughes&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20142\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dan Hughes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHughes_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dan Hughes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The SPP is a regional transmission organization that manages the electric grid and power market for a 14-state region in the central U.S.<\/p>\n<p>LB804, introduced by Sen. Dan Hughes of Venango, increases the compensation cap for Nebraska\u2019s designated representative on the SPP\u2019s Regional State Committee from $20,000 to $35,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>It also increases the limit on aggregate board member pay for activities related to the SPP from $25,000 to $40,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>Senators voted 45-0 to pass the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers approved a measure April 12 that raises the limit on total compensation for Nebraska\u2019s representative on a Southwest Power Pool committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[147],"class_list":["post-32576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-dan-hughes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32578,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32576\/revisions\/32578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}