CREPC 101

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CREPC 101

• September 19, 2005
• San Diego

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CREPC 101

• CREPC History Doug Larson
• Operation of Committee Marsha Smith
• Relationship with other Western Interconnection
  organizations
• WIEB and WGA Doug Larson
• WCPSC Marsha Smith
• CREPC Priorities
• Current priorities
• Resource adequacy Grace Anderson
• Reliability Bill Chamberlain
• Market monitoring/assessment LouAnn Westerfield
• Transmission planning Doug Larson
• Transmission cost allocation/recovery Carl
  Linvill
• Transmission permitting Doug Larson
• Other (efficient use of existing wires demand
  response)
• Governors requests Doug Larson
• Relationship to other organizations

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Evolution of CREPC and Western Industry
Institutions
Western Interstate Energy Board
Committee on Regional Electric Power Cooperation
(CREPC)
Jim Byrne, UT PSC
Marty Blake, NM PUC
Bill Tucker, WY PSC
Roger Hamilton, OR PUC
Marsha Smith, ID PUC
Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners
Western Governors Association
Active in electricity issues
Western Systems Coordinating Council
WECC
SSG-WI
IndeGO
RTO West
Grid West
TIG
Desert STAR
WestConnect
WesTTrans
California ISO
EPAct 1
888/889
SMD
EPAct 2
Order 2000
1984
1996
2005
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2004
1985
1986
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1995
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1991
1990
1989
Dick Casad, WA UTC was briefly chair in
1993-1994
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CREPC History

• Underlying premise
• There is a need for all state and provincial
  agencies in the Western Interconnection to share
  information on electric power issues
• Organization
• Joint committee of WIEB and WCPSC
• WIEB provides staff support
• Evolution
• Formation in 1983
• 1983-mid 90s information sharing and learning
• Mid 90s-2005 information sharing
  participation in Western industry institutions
  responding to requests from WGA interaction
  with FERC and DOE
• Counterparts in other regions
• Organization of MISO States PUCs only?
• New England NECPUC PUCs
• Organization of PJM States PUCs
• SPP Regional State Committee PUCs

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Operation of CREPC

• Marsha Smith

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Relationship of CREPC and Other State
Organizations

• Other organizations
• FERC
• DOE
• WECC
• SSG-WI
• NTAC
• STEP
• SWAT
• RMATS
• GridWest
• TIG
• Westconnect

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CREPC Priorities

• Past priorities
• Information sharing
• Learning about the western grid
• Current priorities and Governors requests
• Resource adequacy assessment Grace Anderson
• Reliability Bill Chamberlain
• Transmission expansion
• Pro-active planning Doug Larson
• Cost allocation/cost recovery Carl Linvill
• Market assessment/monitoring LouAnn
  Westerfield(?)
• Other Doug Larson
• Analysis of actual flows and ATC
• WGA Transmission Permitting Protocol
• Western Renewable Energy Generation Information
  System (WREGIS)

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Resource Adequacy

• Grace Anderson

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Reliability

• Bill Chamberlain

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Transmission Planning

• History
• Crash effort in 2001
• SSG-WI interconnection-wide planning
• Sub-regional transmission planning taking hold
• Some (STEP, NTAC and SWAT-maybe have
  institutional homes)
• RMATS does not have an institutional home
• Key issues
• Planning done with public, transparent database
• Process open to all stakeholders
• Link transmission planning to IRPs
• CREPC agreed to ask companies to compare IRP
  forecasts and forecasts submitted to WECC
• Identify who benefits (helpful in cost
  allocation/recovery decisions)

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Western Interconnection Transmission Planning
Interconnection-wide planning by SSG-WI
RMATS
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Cost Allocation/Recovery

• Carl Linvill

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Other CREPC Topics

• Analysis of actual flows and ATC
• WGA Transmission Permitting Protocol
• Western Renewable Energy Generation Information
  System (WREGIS)
• WIEB/CEC natural gas assessment

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Relationship with other Western Interconnection
organizations

• WECC
• SSG-WI
• RMATS, NTAC, SWAT, STEP
• CA ISO, GridWest, TIG, WestConnect
• WesTTrans
• FERC
• OMOI
• DOE

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WREGIS
Tx expansion planning?
Business Practices and Scheduling Procedures Work
Group