COMMON USE SYSTEM
TRANSMISSION COORDINATION
AND PLANNING COMMITTEE
March 5, 2008
Black Hills Power Service Center
Rapid City, SD
FERC 890 Overview
• The intent of this Order is to remedy opportunities for
undue discrimination and address deficiencies in the pro
forma open access transmission tariff (“pro forma
OATT”).
• The Commission directed all transmission providers to
develop a transmission planning process that satisfies
nine planning principles with an emphasis on
coordination, openness, transparency and stakeholder
input.
Attachment K & TCPC
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Principle 1 – Coordination: Requires appropriate communication among
transmission providers, transmission-providing neighbors, state authorities,
customers, and other stakeholders.
Principle 2 – Openness: Requires that Transmission Planning meetings be
open to all affected parties, including but not limited to all transmission and
interconnection customers, state commissions and other stakeholders.
Principle 3 – Transparency: Requires disclosure of basic methodology,
criteria, assumptions, process and data that underlie transmission system
plans. Must be published and consistently applied.
Principle 4 - Information Exchange: Requires transmission customers to
submit information on projected loads and resources. Equivalent information
must be provided by transmission customers to ensure effective planning
and comparability.
Principle 5 – Comparability: Requires the Transmission Provider to
develop a transmission plan, after considering the data and comments
supplied by customers and other stakeholders, that: 1) meets the specific
service requests of its transmission customers; and 2) provides comparable
treatment to similarly situated customers (network and retail native load).
Attachment K & TCPC
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Principle 6 - Dispute Resolution: Requires an Alternate Dispute
Resolution (ADR) process be available to manage disputes that arise from
the planning process. Must address both substantive and procedural
planning disputes. Three steps should be included in the ADR process: 1)
Negotiation, 2) Mediation, and 3) Arbitration.
Principle 7 - Regional Participation :Requires Transmission Providers to
coordinate with interconnected systems to: 1) share system plans to ensure
they are simultaneously feasible and otherwise use consistent assumptions
and data, and 2) identify system enhancements that could relieve
congestion or integrate new resources.
Principle 8 - Economic Planning Studies: Requires planning to address
both reliability and economic considerations.
Principle 9 - Cost Allocation for New Projects: Requires the planning
process to address cost allocation for joint projects, economic projects, and
projects that do not fit into existing OATT cost allocation principles.
TCPC: The Transmission Provider will work with TCPC to identify the study
objectives, assumptions, study plan and pertinent scenarios that should be
studied in order to meet various stakeholder needs
SOC and Confidentiality
• FERC Standards of Conduct
• TCPC Charter – Confidentiality
– TCPC members agree not to discuss their
committee activities or information obtained
through the committee with the press.
– In discussing TCPC activities in public forums,
members agree to discuss only their ideas,
concerns, or positions regarding committee
activities and information and not to
characterize those of other members.
Typical Timeline - LTP Study Cycle
Quarter
Planning Steps
Data Collection
TCPC Meetings
X
Q1
Study Scope & Scenario Development
Open
X
Optional
Q2
Technical Study
X
Q3
Closed
X
Q4
Decision & Reporting
LTP Study Process
Data Collection, Study Scope and Scenario Development
Load and Resource
Forecast, Point-to-Point
Projections, Demand
Resources
Identify Study Objective,
Define Assumptions,
Develop Study Scope
and Scenarios
TCPC = Transmission Coordination and Planning Committee
TCPC Input
As Requested/Needed
WECC and/or SubRegional Entities
Technical Study
Develop Base
Cases and
Perform
Simulations
Identify Mitigation
or Solutions to
Reliability Criteria
Violations
Analyze Results and
Identify Reliability
Criteria Violations
YES
Another
Scenario?
Re-Run
Simulations with
Solutions
TCPC Input
NO
Document Solutions,
ID Advantages or
Disadvantages to
Each Solution
YES
Reliability
Criteria
Met?
Analyze Results
and ID Reliability
Problems
Sub-Regional Review,
WECC Project Review
Process
NO
Decision
And
Reporting
Identify Best Solution
a.Selection Criteria
b.Advantages/Disadvantages
Prioritize Into Company
Business and Strategic
Plan
Construction and Rate
Base Support
CUS Coordination
Committee and TP
Publish Report
TCPC Input
Timing of Other Public Input
Determined by TCPC
TCPC Input
Sub-Regional Review,
WECC Project Review
Process
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