Rocky Mountain Power Five Year
Study Kick Off Meeting
Agenda
Who is invited?
Basic Study Purpose
Third Party Contributions
Study areas – First Half 2010
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Who is invited?
Any individual is welcome
City and Municipal officials
Generation producers
Large industrial users
Equipment producers
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Study Restrictions
– CIPS
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The reliability of the energy grid depends not only on
physical assets, but cyber assets. The North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) realized that,
along with protecting the physical assets, Critical Cyber
Assets also need to be protected to keep the energy grid
secure.
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– Confidentiality
Why Prepare the Studies?
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– FERC/WECC required
– Provides a good round map for future
– Provides needed justification to sell new system
additions
Basic Understanding of the
Study
– Field Study
Document equipment
 Verify system ratings and settings
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– Identify System Problems and Future Requirements
– Generate a Report
Brief Understanding of the Area
 List Equipment ratings
 Fault duties, operation schemes
 Lists system Problems and Future Requirements
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Third Party Contributions
Load and Forecast Projects
New Points of Delivery
System Power Flow Model
Anticipated Future System Upgrades
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Including block load increases
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Study Areas for First Half 2010
– Montpelier Study
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Area encompasses the area around Bear Lake from Georgetown ID in
the north to Woodruff UT in the south, and from Garden City UT in
the West to Kemmerer WY in the East
– Honeyville~Malad Study
Area encompasses nearly all Box Elder County, a small portion of
Cache County and a portion of Oneida County in Idaho. In all there is
about 3600 square miles of service territory. About 42 percent of this
area is not electrified and potentially may never become so.
– Pavant Study
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Area encompasses the area near Delta, from Lynndyl in the north to
Clear lake in the southwest and Fillmore in the southeast.
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MONTPELIER STUDY
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Tim Reynolds
– Georgetown in the
North
– Dividing line in the
West is the Cache
Nation Forest
– The 69 kV line from
Naughton to the
Montpelier area
– Woodruff to the South
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Montpelier Study Area
Montpelier Study Info
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– There are no Municipalities in the study area
– There are a total of two Transmission Substations,13
Distribution Substation, and three Transmission
Customer
– Transmission Voltages are 69 and 46 kV
Montpelier Study
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– Comments or Questions?
HONEYVILLE~MALAD STUDY
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Scott Murdock
– Malad City in the
North
– Dividing line to the
East is the Cache
Nation Forest
– Brigham City to the
South
– Ben Lomond while
outside of the area, is
its main source for
power.
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Honeyville~Malad Study Area
Honeyville~Malad Study Info
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– There is one Municipality, Brigham City, in the
study area
– There is a total of two Transmission Substations (138
kV) ,15 Distribution Substations, ten Transmission
Customers and one municipality
– Transmission Voltages are 138, 69 and 46 kV
Honeyville~Malad Study
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– Comments or Questions?
PAVANT STUDY
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Seth Riding
– Lynndyl to the North
– Pavant and Delta are
central sources for the
area
– The 69 kV line to Clear
Lake and Graymont
Western in the
Southwest
– The 46 kV line to
Flowell and Fillmore in
the Southeast
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Pavant Study Area
Pavant Study Info
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– There are several Municipalities in the study area
– There are a total of 2 Transmission Substations, 8
Distribution Substation, and 6 Transmission
Customers
– Transmission Voltages are 230, 69 and 46 kV
Pavant Study
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– Comments or Questions?
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Thank You for Coming