Business Practice Revision
BPR
Number
BPR010
Business Practice
Section(s) Requiring
Revision (include Section
BPR
Title
2.1TRANSMISSION SERVICE REQUEST RESPONSE (FIRM POINTTO-POINT)
Revision to BP 2.1
No., Title, and Protocol Version)
Impact Analysis
Required
No
(Yes or No)
MMU Report Required
(Yes or No)
Requested Resolution
(Normal or Urgent)
Revision Description
Reason for Revision
No
Normal
Update of the Long Term Request section of BP 2.1
To update this Business Practice to reflect the tariff changes
effective April 25, 2009.
Tariff Implications or
Changes (Yes or No; If
yes include a summary No
of impact and/or
specific changes)
Criteria Implications or
Changes (Yes or No; If
yes include a summary No
of impact and/or
specific changes)
Credit Implications
(Yes or No, and
summary of impact)
Name
E-mail Address
Company
No
Sponsor
Renee McMillen
rmcmillen@spp.org
SPP
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Company Address
Phone Number
Fax Number
501-688-1771
Proposed Business Practice Language Revision
Reserving Transmission Service
2.1TRANSMISSION SERVICE REQUEST RESPONSE (FIRM POINT-TO-POINT)
Requests for firm point-to-point transmission service on SPP’s OASIS shall be answered within
the time frames specified in the OATT unless there are extenuating circumstances. If there is
adequate Available Transfer Capability (“ATC”), SPP will promptly accept relevant requests.
When ATC is zero, or is inadequate to accommodate a request, the response will be determined
by the situation as classified by the following business practice.
Short Term Requests
If there is limited ATC to accommodate all outstanding requests, the remaining ATC will be
sequentially offered according to service type and queue priority until all requests have been
responded to, or the ATC drops to zero. That sequential process may be protracted if there are
numerous requests in the queue.
If there is zero ATC available for the requested path and time period, and inadequate time to
modify the transmission system to afford ATC, SPP will refuse the request on a nondiscriminatory basis.
If there is limited or no ATC but system modifications or Redispatch can be effected, then a
System Impact Study (SIS) will be offered. The customer will be notified by phone and the
message “SIS needed” will be put in the Provider Comments field of the OASIS request. Once
the customer has been notified, the customer will have one business day to notify SPP by phone
and by noting in the Customer Comments field that a SIS agreement is wanted. A SIS Agreement
will be tendered to the Customer within 30 days of the receipt of a Completed Application.
Depending on the number of pending requests for transmission service, the completion of a SIS
may take significantly longer than the stated target of completion within 60 days. SPP will notify
the customer of such delays and the reason for the delay (consistent with Sec. 19.3 of the
OATT38). If such a delay is anticipated, upon tendering the SIS, the delay will be addressed in
the SIS Agreement.
Long Term Requests
If the request is a new non-competing Long Term request, system capacity must be sufficient to
accommodate the new request. New requests for Long Term service will be considered upon the
Transmission Provider acceptance of a Completed Application, to include, an executed
Aggregate Facility Study Agreement and a study deposit, if required. The Customer must submit
the application prior to the close of an open season. All requests with Completed Applications
successfully submitted within the open season window will be included in the next Aggregate
Facility Study.
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Explanation / Rationale
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