# Southwest Power Pool — press releases — connector definition (see docs/connectors/spp.md)
id: spp
name: "Southwest Power Pool — press releases"
domain: www.spp.org
kind: utility
mode: html
priority: 2
license: "Corporate press releases (Southwest Power Pool, Inc.); facts and links only"
attribution: "Southwest Power Pool (spp.org)"
homepage: https://www.spp.org/newsroom/press-releases/
notes: "Grid operator for 14 central US states. High Impact Large Load (HILL) process, accelerated large-load connection pathway, load-shed and transmission-planning releases. No RSS: the press-release index lists every release (~74) as /news-list/<slug>/ links."
coverage: { countries: ["US"] }
fetch:
  level: 1
  maxLevel: 2
  rpm: 10
  concurrency: 1
  respectRobots: true
  maxCreditsPerRun: 0
discovery:
  seeds:
    - { url: "/newsroom/press-releases/", group: seed, pageType: news_index }
  follow: ["^https://www\\.spp\\.org/news-list/[a-z0-9-]+/?$"]
  include: ["/news-list/[a-z0-9-]+/?$"]
  classify:
    - { pattern: "/news-list/[a-z0-9-]+/?$", group: newsroom, pageType: press_release, priority: 70 }
schedule:
  newsroom: daily
  seed: daily
extractors:
  news:
    pageTypes: [press_release, project_announcement, expansion, acquisition, construction_update, planning_document, power_infrastructure, utility_announcement, closure, cloud_region, financial_disclosure, facility_page, operator_page, unknown]
    kind: news_event
    parser: news_press_release_v1   # article pages have no date / description metadata and a large mega-menu before the headline
    params: { keepText: true }