Peabody Energy Corporation Project Thoroughbred Board Presentation

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Joint Planning at the Regional and Sub-Regional
Levels
Northwest Transmission Assessment Committee
(NTAC)
SSG-WI West wide Planning
Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study (RMATS)
WECC West wide Reliability
Southwest Transmission Expansion Plan (STEP)
Southwest Area Transmission (SWAT) Planning Group
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SSG-WI

• 2004 Work Plan
• Database management Major role for SSG-WI
• Review economic analysis and findings in 2003
  Study
• Conduct workshops
• Collect and coordinate data for a new base case
  transmission planning study
• Transmission economic analysis
• Modeling improvements
• Conduct a scaled down 2004 Study Program
  realistic resource scenario Work with SPGs
  and CREPC in developing the base case scenario
• Update historical path congestion analysis