Tariff Changes
Proposed by
Integrated
System (IS)
2/20/2014
Carl A. Monroe
EXEC VP & COO
Tariff Change Area Review
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Zone 19 – Upper Missouri Zone (UMZ)
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Western-UGP Federal Service Exemption (FSE)
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Base Plan Funding – Entry
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Grandfathered Agreements
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Public Power to Non-Public Utility
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Network Service Thru/Out Revenue Distribution
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Network Service Agreement
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Zone 19 - UMZ
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Includes transmission facilities of Basin Electric Power
Cooperative (Basin), Western Area Power
Administration – Upper Great Plains Region (WesternUGP), and Heartland Consumers Power District
(Heartland)
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Includes facilities in East and West Interconnection
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Additional transmission owners would consider adding
facilities within the zone
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Facilities with credits under the Western tariff
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Facilities that meet Attachment AI but not definition of
transmission in IS
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Zone 19 - UMZ
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Areas of change
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Add definition of UMZ, Western-UGP
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Add to Schedule 1,7, 8, 9, 11
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Attachment H, M
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Western-UGP FSE
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Federal Statutes govern the functions and limitations of Western-UGP
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Federal Reclamation Law, largely contained in the Department of Energy
Organization Act of 1977, the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, the Flood
Control Act of 1944, and the Fort Peck Project Act of 1938
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Other Federal law as applicable, and specifically Western-UGP’s ability to
join an RTO consistent with section 1232 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
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Western has advised that consistent with its statutory obligations it cannot
agree to: (1) involuntary cost allocation for third-party transmission
facilities, which includes SPP’s cost allocation share under its tariff and (2)
Western’s rates are subject to a different standard of review pursuant to
the delegation of authority from the Department of Energy delegated to
FERC.
Joining SPP is based on the fixed nature of the generation resources
committed to the preference customers of Western-UGP as well as the
sufficiency of existing transmission Western-UGP built to meet its
requirements.
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Western-UGP FSE
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Exempt from:
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Schedule 11 Regional Transmission Cost Allocation
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Congestion Costs/ARR/TCR
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Marginal Losses/Overcollection Distribution
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FERC’s Annual Assessment and Schedule 12
Areas of change
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Add definition: FSE
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40 – FSE for Schedule 11 Regional Rate
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Schedules 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
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Base Plan Funding – HW/BW
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Offered same as to Entergy
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All Facilities needed after October 1, 2015 would be in
regional cost allocation for all SPP LSEs including the
new members.
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Areas of change
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Definition of Base Plan Funding
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List of Facilities that would be eligible after October 1,
2015 for regional cost allocation, until integrated into SPP
Planning
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Regional Cost Allocation Review
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Grandfathered Agreements
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Considering which transmission agreements in place at
October 1, 2015 to add.
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Areas of change
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Definition of Grandfathered Agreements
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Attachment W
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Public Power to Non-Public Utility
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Area of change
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39.1 – Protections of Public Power extended to all NonPublic Utilities
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Network Service Thru/Out Revenue Distribution
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Proposing a generic change to the revenue distribution
if Network Service is provided thru and out of SPP.
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Change to distribute to zone exited, or shared with
zones that are exited.
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Area of change
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Attachment L
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Network Service Agreements
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Split of NITS between Western-UGP and other cosupplier
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Unique to Western-UGP based on FSE
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Areas of change
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Western-UGP retains all transmission usage rights
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FSE
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Western-UGP pays full UMZ rate excluding Schedule 11
Regional for their Federal Power deliveries to Preference
Customers from Federal Resources
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West Interconnection usage exempt from Schedule 11
Regional
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Carl A. Monroe
EVP & COO
501-614-3218
cmonroe@spp.org
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